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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CoolCartoon" data-source="post: 2022065" data-attributes="member: 6894">STUDENT Kanan Kharbanda, 26, was left partially blinded after being bashed by a gang of 10 or more youths at Sunshine in March.He has now fled Australia and is undergoing medical treatment in his native India."They entice us to come to Australia saying all its good points - but what kind of a world-class city cannot ensure the safety of ordinary people?" Mr Kharbanda told the Indus Age paper for expats.  Asif Valji, 19, and Vijay Maddineni, 22, multimedia students at Cambridge International College in the city, also say they are victims of racist assaults and thefts.Both said they were often approached by youths demanding they hand over their laptops or mobiles.Mr Valji claimed his home was broken into by a thug who had earlier harassed him.Their friend Kanwerdeep Singh, 20, was stabbed in the leg while another youth attempted to steal his phone."They always want to degrade us," Mr Valji said about repeated racial taunts he and his peers get, mainly while catching trains to school or at part-time jobs."I've had people shout me in the ear, yelling 'white is right'," he said.Federation of Indian Students of Australia president Raman Vaid said racist attacks were increasing."Most of the students mortgage their family home as collateral for an Australian dream," Mr Vaid said."When students arrive in Australia they see a completely different picture and the dreams are shattered."With a bad start with their education life, they start to face other issues like unemployment, lack of housing, cultural differences and shock, which in turn relates to stress and depression."Psychiatric registrar Tanveer Ahmed said the flip-side to Australia's booming international student industry was the desperation faced by many newcomers.Mr Ahmed said he had seen a number of foreign students at risk of suicide. FISA believes 13 have taken their lives in the past year here.One Bangladeshi student, whose family had mortgaged their home to pay for his education, attempted to kill himself after he failed to meet his subsequent tuition fees despite working three part-time jobs. Study fees for two years for foreign students can reach as high as $50,000, on top of living expenses."Working in mental health, I see more and more students each month and their situations are often horrendous," Mr Ahmed said. "Suicide attempts, self-harm or drug overdoses are the most common, usually in relation to financial and study pressures." <a href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23673284-2862,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23673284-2862,00.html</a></blockquote>

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