In a mark of protest against the continuing attacks on Indians in Australia, superstar Amitabh Bachchan refused to accept an honorary doctorate from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, in recognition of his contribution to the world of entertainment.In light of the recent racial attacks on Indian students studying in Australia, he has refused to receive this honourable award.
The doctorate was to be conferred in time to coincide with a retrospective of his films in the city of Queensland in July.
Bachchan wrote in his blog, "I mean no disrespect to the Institution that honors me, but under the present circumstances, where citizens of my own country are subjected to such acts of inhuman horror, my conscience does not permit me to accept this decoration from a country that perpetrates such indignity to my fellow countrymen.”
The most brutal of the recent spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia, was sustained by 25-year-old Shravan Kumar, who is till in a critical condition after being stabbed by a group of Australian teens. Today, another Indian in the country was targetted and sustained 30 per cent burns after a petrol bomb was thrown at him.
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