Vikas Rambal was born in Delhi, India, in 1967. Mr Rambal qualified as a chemical engineer at the University of Nagpur, specializing in petrochemicals. He spent the first years of his career working with Bharat Petroleum (formerly Shell) and was then involved in a range of projects including refineries and the manufacture of fertilisers.
In 2000, Mr Rambal and his business partners arrived in Western Australia with plans to use natural gas for downstream industry, including the manufacture of ammonia for the international fertiliser market.
Vikas Rambal and his wife Maegha, and sons Ishan, 8 and Vashist, 6, relocated from Delhi to Perth in 2001, allowing the family to focus on the successful development of the Burrup Fertiliser project.
I wonder why so many Indians are apologizing and rationalizing for the behavior of thuggish elements in the Australian Society. This insanely cowardly attitude of "we must have done something wrong" - therefore "we deserve what we get" is not uniquely Indian. But the number of Indians who hold this attitude is mind boggling. No wonder a billion people are being dominated by a mere 150 million pakistanis who are able to extract a much better leverage from the world powers than India can ever dream of achieving.
Self respect, confidence, and some moxie (meaning gonads) are all essential ingredients of becoming a world power and living well - elements that are sadly missing in the Indian populace. Such a shame..
Rambal is saving his business. he is saving his roti.. he is not to be blamed. I am apalled at Rediff who published his absurd comment. no media coverage should be given to these morons.
Re: Rediff please improve
by Kaushik Comments on Jul 15, 2009 01:15 AM
I thought slave mentality ... even after 62 years of independence was confined to India and current congress supporters ! but it is wide spread ????
rambal is right , even in india , most of students do lots of bad thing during study times, then how can we say auusies are racist,indian media is completely idiot, they always blame other countries, media is also corrupt like indian politician, media always spread false information for money, nab all news channel
Re: Re: ban indian news channel
by Muhammad Azeem on Jul 14, 2009 09:23 PM
@nitin....i think u r are a real fruit! i do agree what students too is not 100% correct...but other people cant take law i their own hands and start punishing....boss wats happening in australia is real racism....wake up...this is not time to clean our country...imagine one of ur cousin did some eve teasing and the crowd beats him and he dies...would u say it was correct that he died?????
Re: Re: Re: ban indian news channel
by nelfern again on Jul 15, 2009 01:43 AM
this is NOT the time to clean our country ? you chuti.ya muhammad ..if our country was clean ..no indian had to get out in the first place... now IS the time to clean india...no desi has died in australia ..so as far as you cousin analogy goes... yes its right the cousin was beaten for eave teasing
Re: Re: Re: ban indian news channel
by Kaushik Comments on Jul 15, 2009 01:18 AM
Azeem depending upon how far your cousing went with his eve-teasing ...it would be something they brought on themseles.
The oz thugs were just a bunch of druggies who have identified indians as easy pick .
The aussie government should nip this in the bud before the thugs have a go on other white aussies
Re: Re: Re: ban indian news channel
by paul austin on Jul 18, 2009 10:51 PM
Dear Muhammad, 'When you are in Rome, Live like a Roman'. This is an old saying, but perfectly valid for NewGen Indian students in Australia. They should not behave, like in an Indian Univ campus.
This gentleman is absolutely right about what he said. I have never experienced , heard from friends or watched any explicit racial attacks, verbal or physical anywhere. I was astonished to find that when I visited India recently , every other media channel is portraying all unnatural deaths of young Indians as racially motivated. Many are just victims of robbery, just like people of other races. It feels helpless that the Indian media can twist stories just the way they like. It is indeed a fact that recently arrived Indians abroad tend to be noisy, inpolite and generally disturbing the public decorum. This may be acceptable in our culture but the more developed countries generally find it unacceptable. I sincerely hope the gvernment or some NGO trains every Idnian student who leaves for studying abroad on behavioural and social skills.
Re: This Man is Absolutely Right
by DarthVader on Jul 14, 2009 08:08 PM
So whatever you don't see with your own eyes or experience does not exist and is not the truth? Do you even realize the insanity in the statement you just made? Perhaps not...
Re: This Man is Absolutely Right
by Nandu Indian on Jul 14, 2009 06:11 PM
Rambal is saving his business. he is saving his roti.. he is not to be blamed. I am apalled at Rediff who published his absurd comment. no media coverage should be given to these morons.
Re: This Man is Absolutely Right
by Sreekanth Nemani on Jul 14, 2009 03:41 PM
so you kill someone because you find them offensive? Wow what amazing culture the australians have ... now i am finding them offensive, should i go around killing australians?
Re: Re: This Man is Absolutely Right
by paul austin on Jul 18, 2009 10:58 PM
If you find 'this amazing cuture' abhorrent, you should avoid going to that country. You cannot possibly try to change a country's culture, during a brief studentship.
Re: Re: This Man is Absolutely Right
by Muhammad Azeem on Jul 14, 2009 09:31 PM
@vivek....i think u r are a real fruit and are slowly into the process of becoming a non indian and hating india!who told that talking loud is indecent?why u see it that way?lot depends on genetics,race etc etc etc...all orientals have a loud voice...for that matter there are alot of genetic difference between people from different parts of world...so u cant say one thing is better than others.. i do agree what students do is not 100% correct...but other people cant take law in their own hands and start punishing....boss wats happening in australia is real racism....wake up...this is not time to clean our country...imagine one of ur cousin did some eve teasing and the crowd beats him and he dies...would u say it was correct that he died?????
Re: Racism???
by paul austin on Jul 18, 2009 11:07 PM
VERY CORRECTLY SAID. Example: Talking loud in a public space may be normal in India, but looked-down-upon in many foreign countries. When u r in a foreign land u have to follow the local norms.
Re: Racism???
by Hydra Hero on Jul 14, 2009 12:07 PM
Oh dear .We have to show our patriotism through media driven lies and nincompoops believe blindly with out asserting facts When Autralian cricket team educated spectators were showing monkey signs and they are not racist Harbhajan at the drop of the hat uses teri ma ki and we not offended because he is on e of us .You would well if say Aussies are racist HT runs column on ministers and invariably note he or she a dalit but for being so the person could not have been a minister but yet Indians are not racist aussies are racist
Re: Racism???
by DarthVader on Jul 14, 2009 05:47 PM
So you prefer blind murderous violence to racism? What is in a label? Still ends up in people getting thrown out and being killed.
Re: Re: Racism???
by Shahryar Pax on Jul 14, 2009 07:41 PM
Darth Vader - you are an ignorant moron. The attacks on Indian students are by organised gangsters - mostly Lebanese Arabs. They also attack whites and are known to gang-rape white women making the excuse in court that their Muslim culture says any woman not in a burka is available to them! Stupid Indian students should learn to not flash their fancy electronic gadgets attracting the thieves. Even drunk Indian students in UK are often the target of thieves/muggers since most are physically small and puny!!! An Indian friend's son in London against his parent's advice travelled on the top floor of a double decker bus and was robbed of his fancy Sony-Ericcson cellphone by three West Indians!
Re: Re: Re: Racism???
by DarthVader on Jul 14, 2009 08:11 PM
Right, and you are a genius with IQ of 200. Let us not argue who is a member of Mensa and who is not - this is irrelevant to the issue.
Does the idea of taking a stand to defend yourself scare you? This is what civilizations who are noble and people who have self respect, confidence and strength do to protect their interests.
One can only modify one's behavior so much in response to outside threats. At some point, you have to "fight back" - concepts that are alien to Indians and Indian civilization I guess - explains why we have been so easily colonized by all and sundry.
Re: Re: Racism???
by Shahryar Pax on Jul 14, 2009 07:40 PM
Darth Vader - you are an ignorant moron. The attacks on Indian students are by organised gangsters - mostly Lebanese Arabs. They also attack whites and are known to gang-rape white women making the excuse in court that their Muslim culture says any woman not in a burka is available to them! Stupid Indian students should learn to not flash their fancy electronic gadgets attracting the thieves. Even drunk Indian students in UK are often the target of thieves/muggers since most are physically small and puny!!! An Indian friend's son in London against his parent's advice travelled on the top floor of a double decker bus and was robbed of his fancy Sony-Ericcson cellphone by three West Indians!
Re: Dont allow
by Against Pseudos on Jul 14, 2009 11:41 AM
Srinivas G:
Read the above article....
Rambal, whose company Perdaman Industries plans to build a 3.5 billion dollar urea plant in Collie, south of Perth, told students at his former university in Nagpur on Thursday that Indian students had provoked the attacks on themselves.
I think when I looked last, Nagpur was still in India..... you think otherwise?.... ;-)
Re: Re: Dont allow
by Vivek Chandra on Jul 14, 2009 11:47 AM
Yes sir, I strongly agree with you; Nagpur is an integral part of India. We can not allow anybody talk otherwise. We'll raise the tricolour in the city centre to prove this point.
Re: Dont allow
by oldruff on Jul 14, 2009 11:23 AM
why do you want to do that. Sitting here in India and in an AC office, when you can pass a verdict on Rambal, why cant he comment on something and about a land where he has lived all his life. Use some common sense not emotions!!
