Salute to Mr. Amitabh Bachchan for refusing an honorary doctorate from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, because of racist attacks on Indian students in Australia. Officials there repeatedly say that these are random crimes and not racist attacks as if that somehow reduces them to teenage pranks. Australia was founded as a penal colony where the dregs of Britain were dumped and so people have criminal genes. The whites tried to wipe out the aborigines by kidnapping their children in early twentieth century. Australia sees itself as a western nation and despises its Asian neighbours. It sent troops to fight alongside Americans inVietnam and Iraq. Even now it has troops controlling East Timor thus trying to gain control of oil and gas in the Timorese sea. About forty years ago in a spat with Britain Malaysia stopped sending its students to British universities thus cutting off valuable funds. Britain had to go on its knees begging for forgiveness. So what is our government doing? Nothing, not even a travel advisory. Therefore thanks to Mr. Bachchan who says his ' conscience does not permit me to accept this decoration from a country which perpetrates such indignities on my fellow countrymen .' Seventynine ministers and one aging actor. Who is a greater patriot and loves his people more? Easy to guess.