IT appears to be a common theme in the Victorian news.

Indians getting bashed – this time three of them being taxi drivers in Ballarat.

Are they easy targets? The fact that some people believe that Indian people don’t fight back.

The attacks take the total of incidents involving Indian nationals in Ballarat to four in just three days.

One of them a student, told The Age, that he was fearing for his life.

It has become that serious that it is life or death for some Indian people.

This is really sad that this is happening in Australia; a country in which has more recently accepted multi-culturalism.

It is a country that has accepted a lot – until now.

Does the economic crisis have much to do with this? In a previous post, I wrote about how one Indian living in Melbourne wondered if it was because some Australians were frustrated that Indians had jobs and some Australians didn’t.

Was this a motivating factor in the fact that more Indians are getting bashed and killed than any other culture in the country?