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    Indian "solidarity" doing a disappearing act?

    As if the terrorist attacks aren't enough to deal with, a new issue comes to the fore everyday in my country.

    Things seem to be going crazy everywhere. Be it the Rajasthan Gujjars or Mumbai Marathi, no where can you see Indian solidarity. What ever happened to secular India?

    Seems like people have forgotten they're still living in one country.
    Latest example:

    They left the city to pursue their dream of higher education. But 30 students, who returned from Bangalore on Wednesday morning, have only nightmares to recount.

    The students of College of Pharmacy, who shared a flat in Devanahalli near Bangalore, were threatened,
    terrorised and some of them even beaten up by local residents when they tried to stop a thief who broke into their room. They managed to flee after two traumatic days and reach the city on Wednesday. Even the police and trustees of their college refused to help.

    For Upendra Singh Jadeja and six other students of Bachelor of Pharmacy, June 2 was yet another day till they returned home around noon from an examination and found the door open.

    "My flatmate Mayur was the first to return and was shocked to find the room ransacked. He saw two people running away through the main door and another entering a room," said Jadeja.

    Mayur came out of the house and locked it from outside, trapping the thief. "We reached by then and called the landlord and informed the police. When the police arrived, family members of the ‘thief' spoke to the cops in the local language and he was allowed to go free. His family members then threatened us with dire consequences right in front of the police," said Jadeja.

    Scared, they turned to trustees of their college for help. "We called our college trustee Basava Raja, who refused to come to the spot but said that he would send two professors," he added.

    "Meanwhile, we even met a trustee of the college who refused to help us saying that it was a dispute that took place outside the college and they were not responsible," said Jadeja.

    "We were too scared to return and hence sent other classmates to check the situation. As our classmates reached the house, they saw the family of the thief, along with the landlord, waiting with batons and sticks. The group of 15-odd friends who had gone to check the situation was chased out of the building. We never went back to the flat," said Jadeja, who returned with others by the Bangalore-Jodhpur Express.

    They now plan to meet the agent who had got them admitted to the college and even promised them proper accommodation.

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad_students_bashed_up_flee_Bangalore_in_fear/articleshow/3101006.cms

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