Hyderabad

May 30: Indians are humiliated in Australia when the Australians lose a cricket match to India, a long-time expatriate and relative of a racist attack has said. “There were no attacks earlier,” said Mr Lakshminarayana, a cousin of Mr Shravan Kumar, who was stabbed last week. Mr Kumar is in a serious condition at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

“Whenever the Australian team was defeated in a cricket match (by India) they used to pass racist comments,” said Mr Lakshminarayana, who has been in Australia for several years. “Now they are resorting to violence.” Mr Kumar is in a coma in the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he was visited by the Indian high commissioner, Ms Sujata Singh, and the consul-general in Melbourne, Ms Anita Nayar, on Thursday.

The Federation of Indian Students here has called a peace rally on Sunday from the hospital to Victorian Parliament House.