Amitabh Bachchan Blog – Now Amitabh Bachchan to reject Australian doctorate based on a poll on his blog?
Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood superstar has reacted to racial attacks on Indian students in Australia and if the poll results say so he will be rejecting an honorary doctorate offered to him by an Australian university.
Australia has recently seen a series of racial attacks on Indian students, the most serious being the assault of Shravan Kumar, a 25 year student from Andhra Pradesh who is battling for life in a hospital here after being stabbed by a screwdriver by a group of teens.
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane had offered Amitabh Bachchan a doctorate for his contribution to the world of entertainment and he has earlier accepted the title. The honour was to be conferred on Amitabh Bachchan in July.
Amitabh Bachchan on his blog wrote
“I have been witnessing with great dismay and shock, the recent violent attacks on Indian students in Australia, on the electronic media the entire day … I mean no disrespect to the Institution that honours me, but under the present circumstances, where citizens of my own country are subjected to such acts of inhuman horror, my conscience does not permit me to accept this decoration from a country that perpetrates such indignity to my fellow countrymen…And here is where I need your inputs. Am I right in thinking so. And if yes then is my act of refusing the honor justified or not. I shall put this up as my POLL question and shall feel obliged if EF can indicate to me their opinion, for me to be ale to take the correct action.”
