Rashmi Bansal offers some insights:

Actually, back in March, the Economic Times had reported on this issue as follows:

The growing number of attacks on Indian students in Australia has become a big cause for concern at the Indian High Commission in Canberra. A senior diplomat at the High Commission told ET that in the last six months, there have been 500 cases of assault on Indian students, registered by the police authorities across Australia.

FIVE HUNDRED attacks and it did not make a ripple in India. And students too sat silent, I think because of two reasons:
a) Once you’ve invested in an education in Australia, you want to complete it – no matter what.
b) You know your own government will do nothing for you apart from lip service. So why make a fuss?

As a panelist observed on Times Now, “If a government does not care for the safety of its citizens abroad, why should the host nation?”

Child Of Adam advocates introspection:

“A white man called me a pig”.. and we’ll scream Racial Discrimination at the top of our voices. But when we call South Indians as Illads, North East Indians as chinkis or chow chows or when the South Indians pass derogatory comments at North Indians, then we don’t seem to care. There are many colleges down South, where North Indian students get ragged only cause they are north indians and the vice versa up North. All Nepalis become bahadur… Why don’t we take up such issues too?? I think that the reason why it doesn’t bother us, is because racism is ingrained in us… so much so that we don’t even know when we discriminate on the basis our race, colour, sex etc… But in a pluralistic country like India ,which seems united on the outside, but is fragmented in the inside, it is not surprising to come across such cases.