http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_pawar-fails-to-sway-thackeray-on-austr alian-players-for-now_1344789
G'day Goanetters, Sharad Pawar was on the nose when Harbhajan's Maa Ki/Monkey dispute raged on during a previous Australian summer. Andrew Symonds was dudded by The-Game-Must-Go-On Aussie Cricket officials' decisions. India threatened to leave Oz with its cricket team otherwise. I understand that Harbhajan does an Ad for a Migration Agency, to entice Indian students to go to Australia to study; consequently riff-raff entering the country like never before. Now, the Great Maharashtrian demagogue Thackeray is doing to Sharad what Sharad did to Cricket Australia's enquiry in the case of Harbajan vs Andrew Symonds. (The end-justifies-the-means. Screw the truth.) Ricky Ponting and Roy (Andrew) were summoned and questioned by Cricket Australia as if they were the wrong doers when Sharad went feral. Acrimonious times. I was ashamed to be an Indian. Cringe Cringe. Back to the present: I hope Indian student numbers fall to zero. They are more trouble than they're worth. Australia has lowered its standards by giving them entry. I have watched Border Security. It's not uncommon for a tourist to be refused entry. Customs and Immigration send them back on an available flight quicksmart. On tourist visas you must have money to live and a place to stay and you may not work at all. Tourists leave the country when their visa runs dry. Indian students have long stays and may earn money during their stay. Too easy! State Governments have lowered standards in a bid to grab Indian Rupees. Education Dollars. Bad move! Premier John Brumby has hired Shane Warne (THE FIXER UP) to kiss it better. Costly stuff? I think that India owes Premier Brumby an apology. You compared him to Hitler? Highly questionable editorship! Readership has dropped and dropped? So, make it up as you go along? Why don't Indian journalists work their readers up about the abolition of the caste system/building more toilets/improving the quality of drinking water, or a clean up of the Chatrapatti Airport environs or the potholed roads or child trafficking or catch a paedophile a day or whatever else needs fixing? Better than stirring up the rabble into burning effigies and flags. You have the whitening cream. We have the uranium. Orlabest, Rubygoes Sydney (City of Villages)