<p>Few days after an attack on Swiss couple, another tourist has been allegedly assaulted in Uttar Pradesh.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A German national was beaten up by a man at Robertsganj Railway Station in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh because he inadvertently ignored a man&#39;s greeting.</p>

<p>The police have arrested the accused identified as Aman Yadav further investigation in the case is still underway.</p>

<p>The German Tourist Holger Erik, a Berlin native, was referred to Mirzapur hospital for treatment.</p>

<p>After getting off a train, the German was looking for directions at the stations to go to Agori fort for his research when Aman Kumar greeted him. The tourist didn&rsquo;t respond and Kumar was offended.</p>

<p>Kumar then pushed him to the ground and slapped him a number of times, police said.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, the accused claimed innocence and alleged that he was punched by the German first. &quot;I am innocent, the German national punched me when I said &#39;Welcome to India&#39;. He even spat on me,&quot; he added.</p>

<p>This is the second attack on foreign tourists in Uttar Pradesh in a fortnight after a Swiss couple Quentin Jeremy Clerc and girlfriend Marie Droz was thrashed at Fatehpur Sikri on October 26.<br />
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Following the incident. Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Sulkhan Singh had issued a list of guidelines, including the deployment of policemen in plain clothes, more patrolling and installation of CCTV cameras, to prevent such incidents in the future.</p>

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A German national was beaten up by a man at Robertsganj Railway Station in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh because he inadvertently ignored a man's greeting.

Few days after an attack on Swiss couple, another tourist has been allegedly assaulted in Uttar Pradesh. A German national was beaten up by a man at Robertsganj Railway Station in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh because he inadvertently ignored a man's greeting. The police have arrested the accused identified as Aman Yadav further investigation in the case is still underway. The German Tourist Holger Erik, a Berlin native, was referred to Mirzapur hospital for treatment. After getting off a train, the German was looking for directions at the stations to go to Agori fort for his research when Aman Kumar greeted him. The tourist didn’t respond and Kumar was offended. Kumar then pushed him to the ground and slapped him a number of times, police said. Meanwhile, the accused claimed innocence and alleged that he was punched by the German first. "I am innocent, the German national punched me when I said 'Welcome to India'. He even spat on me," he added. This is the second attack on foreign tourists in Uttar Pradesh in a fortnight after a Swiss couple Quentin Jeremy Clerc and girlfriend Marie Droz was thrashed at Fatehpur Sikri on October 26. Following the incident. Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Sulkhan Singh had issued a list of guidelines, including the deployment of policemen in plain clothes, more patrolling and installation of CCTV cameras, to prevent such incidents in the future.

Days after attack on Swiss couple, German tourist assaulted in UP

<p>Weeks after the being attacked by four unidentified youth at Fatehpur Sikri in Uttar Pradesh, Swiss couple has now been offered an all-expense paid two-night stay at Delhi&#39;s Ashok hotel by the country&#39;s tourism minister KJ Alphons.</p>

<p>Citing it as a &#39;token of concern&#39; in a letter to the couple, the tourism minister has asked them to pick a date for their stay at the hotel.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&quot;Trust you are recovering fast and would be on your way home soon. As a token of our concern, we would like to offer you a room at our luxury hotel, The Ashok, at Chankyapuri, New Delhi for two nights on the dates of your choice. All expenses at the hotel, including food and beverages, would be covered,&quot; KJ Alphons said in the letter.</p>

<p>Run by ITDC, The Ashok hotel is situated 2km from Rashtrapati Bhavan and the tariff per night at the hotel is around Rs 10,000.&nbsp;<br />
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The couple who are currently recovering at Delhi&#39;s Apollo Hospital was attacked by four unidentified youth at Fatehpur Sikri on October 22. As they lay on the ground, injured, the locals shot videos of them instead of calling for&nbsp;help.&nbsp;<br />
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Citing it as a 'token of concern' in a letter to the couple, the tourism minister has asked them to pick a date for their stay at Delhi's Ashok Hotel.

Weeks after the being attacked by four unidentified youth at Fatehpur Sikri in Uttar Pradesh, Swiss couple has now been offered an all-expense paid two-night stay at Delhi's Ashok hotel by the country's tourism minister KJ Alphons. Citing it as a 'token of concern' in a letter to the couple, the tourism minister has asked them to pick a date for their stay at the hotel. "Trust you are recovering fast and would be on your way home soon. As a token of our concern, we would like to offer you a room at our luxury hotel, The Ashok, at Chankyapuri, New Delhi for two nights on the dates of your choice. All expenses at the hotel, including food and beverages, would be covered," KJ Alphons said in the letter. Run by ITDC, The Ashok hotel is situated 2km from Rashtrapati Bhavan and the tariff per night at the hotel is around Rs 10,000. The couple who are currently recovering at Delhi's Apollo Hospital was attacked by four unidentified youth at Fatehpur Sikri on October 22. As they lay on the ground, injured, the locals shot videos of them instead of calling for help. Soon after the incident, the tourism minister had written to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath inquiring about the incident and had even gone and met the couple.

Attacked Swiss couple offered free stay at five-star hotel

<p>The Switzerland embassy said on Friday that it was deeply concerned about the health of the Swiss couple who were attacked in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra on Sunday (October 22).&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Swiss embassy also thanked Indian authorities, citizens and the media for their concern, support, and compassion for the Swiss couple.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>The statement by the embassy came a while after ministry of external affairs spokesperson told in a weekly press briefing that they were in touch with the Switzerland embassy.</p>

<p>MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that the ministry believes&nbsp;in quick redressal of the issue. He said that the officials have also visited the victims in the hospital to ensure their safety.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>A Swiss couple, hailing from Lausanne in Switzerland, was brutally <a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/sushma-swaraj-steps-in-after-swiss-couple-brutally-attacked-in-fatehpur-sikri-22931" target="_blank">thrashed by a group of youth&nbsp;in Fatehpur Sikri on October 22.</a> The couple is currently admitted at Apollo hospital in Delhi.&nbsp;</p>

<p>On Thursday, <a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/all-five-arrested-in-fatehpur-sikri-attack-22992" target="_blank">all the five accused, including three minors, were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police.&nbsp;</a></p>

<p><a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/storm-on-social-media-after-swiss-couple-attacked-in-fatehpur-sikri-22978" target="_blank">Also read:&nbsp;Storm on social media after Swiss couple attacked in Fatehpur Sikri</a></p>

<p>Earlier today, union minister of state for tourism KJ Alphons said that shooting incidents happen regularly in US&nbsp;as do terror attacks in Europe.</p>

<p>&quot;Do we call those countries unsafe to travel ?&quot;, Alphons said, remarking that India was a very safe destination for tourists.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Alphons also said that in India, very few incidents like these take place in a year.</p>

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The Swiss embassy also thanked Indian citizens and media for their overwhelming concern and support to the victims

The Switzerland embassy said on Friday that it was deeply concerned about the health of the Swiss couple who were attacked in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra on Sunday (October 22). The Swiss embassy also thanked Indian authorities, citizens and the media for their concern, support, and compassion for the Swiss couple. Deeply concerned about health of the two Swiss citizens attacked in Fatehpur Sikri on October 22: Switzerland Embassy — ANI (@ANI) October 27, 2017 × Thank Indian authorities, citizens and media for overwhelming concern,support &many signs of compassion received for victims:Swiss Embassy — ANI (@ANI) October 27, 2017 × The statement by the embassy came a while after ministry of external affairs spokesperson told in a weekly press briefing that they were in touch with the Switzerland embassy. MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that the ministry believes in quick redressal of the issue. He said that the officials have also visited the victims in the hospital to ensure their safety. Our response in such cases is to bring immediate relief to victims&wish them speedy recovery: MEA on Swiss Couple attacked in Fatehpur Sikri — ANI (@ANI) October 27, 2017 × A Swiss couple, hailing from Lausanne in Switzerland, was brutally thrashed by a group of youth in Fatehpur Sikri on October 22. The couple is currently admitted at Apollo hospital in Delhi. On Thursday, all the five accused, including three minors, were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police. Also read: Storm on social media after Swiss couple attacked in Fatehpur Sikri Earlier today, union minister of state for tourism KJ Alphons said that shooting incidents happen regularly in US as do terror attacks in Europe. "Do we call those countries unsafe to travel ?", Alphons said, remarking that India was a very safe destination for tourists. Alphons also said that in India, very few incidents like these take place in a year. India is a very safe destination for tourists, very few incidents take place in a year: KJ Alphons, Tourism Minister pic.twitter.com/qVB5XHh0J9 — ANI (@ANI) October 27, 2017 × Shooting incidents happen regularly in USA& terror attacks in Europe,do we call those countries unsafe to travel? :KJ Alphons,Tourism Min pic.twitter.com/11fJDLQtUN — ANI (@ANI) October 27, 2017 ×

Deeply concerned about health of Swiss couple: Switzerland embassy

<p>A Swiss couple got beaten up by a group of people at Fatehpur Sikri, Agra. This beaten, swollen, bloody bodies of two human beings do not go down well with our national image. The group of people who committed this heinous crime behaved like barbarians but India is a civilised nation. We have in the past, in moments of frenzy or because of deep-seated religious values, killed few people here and there. But these victims have mostly come from minority marginalised communities.</p>

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<p>What prompted a group of people to bludgeon a foreign couple can be a matter of introspection. We can trivialise it as a single episode of violence without context and feel simply sad as to how these uneducated poor Indians do not even understand the shastraic injections that ask Hindus to treat all &quot;Atithis&quot;&nbsp;i.e. guests as &lsquo;deva&rsquo; or god. Nodding in despair, we can mutter to ourselves, this is indeed &lsquo;incredible India&rsquo; - we want foreign investment and at the same time beat up foreigners.</p>

<p>Taking refuge in despair or in tradition, however, is not the answer to the situation. Actions are needed and, more importantly, introspection as to what acts as sources of these kinds of violence.</p>

<p>Beating up foreigners is not new to Indians. We beat up African nationals with impunity. But there a clear difference between treatment meted out to black folks and the white people visiting the Aryavarta.</p>

<p>Indians don&rsquo;t consider themselves black. Far from it, our extensive interactions as journalists confirmed this that many Indians see Africans as monsters and cannibals. But we don&rsquo;t share similar racial animosity towards the white people. With our pride in the Aryan heritage and deep fascination about white skin, we receive westerners with a bunch of contradictory feelings. They are &lsquo;mlecchas&rsquo; or irreligious, unclean, promiscuous, are divorcing all the time, and the girls grow up with no or little values. Their mothers are not like our mothers. Their mothers smoke, drink and don&rsquo;t spend their lives in the kitchen as ours do. In all these areas we feel superior. We have something to teach them.</p>

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<p>But our fascination with the West or, more precisely, with the Whites don&rsquo;t end either. They have ruled us and, hence, they had to be superior in some intrinsic way. They are rich. They speak English-the ultimate mark of education. They are confident, even their women are.</p>

<p>So, we can&rsquo;t claim that it is jingoism that prompted this act of violence. People living in and around Agra meet and mix with foreigners on a daily basis. Millions of foreigners visit Agra every year. Both Fatehpur Sikri and Taj Mahal are global destinations for tourists.</p>

<p>The white couple was subjected to violence is the news but, in reality, the aggression was in the first placed directed towards the white woman. Maybe the couples were holding hands or maybe not. Maybe they were kissing or maybe not. We may indulge ourselves, just like the cop did, in all kinds of speculations to fathom what provoked the violence. But emphasising on the gesture will miss the bigger point as to the mindset that causes the action.</p>

<p>Even if the couple did not publicly express their affection, this violence could have taken place. My friend, another white woman from the US, during her brief research trip to Delhi, was every day subjected to sexually explicit comments, people stalked her, threw stuff in her living room etc. She almost escaped Delhi. An expert in South Asian Studies, it is sad that she is too emotionally overwhelmed to visit Delhi again.</p>

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<p>The white people continue to be seen as the superior race; its women folks very desirable but unattainable. One doesn&#39;t need to be very smart to realise that the long history of colonial subjugation has shaped our views of the master race. But deeply entrenched within this feeling of inferiority is a perception that white women are sexually promiscuous. While Indian women are shaped by tradition to be monogamous and be under purdah, the white women, on the other hand, because of the natural ease they display in mingling with members of the opposite sex are seen as more open to sexual advances. The&nbsp;Swiss guy got beaten up not because he is a white or for being a foreigner but because he stood in the way of the expression of this lewd behaviour.</p>

<p>The stereotypes that we nurture in our heads have taken a life of their own. We don&rsquo;t exercise agencies over them. Instead, they have come to control our thoughts and actions. Historically speaking, the Western world for centuries have propagated such stereotypical views about the oriental men and women. They have portrayed us as virile, lazy, dishonest, passive, scheming, and our womenfolk, particularly, as baby churning machine with no sense of independence. An entire genre of postcolonial studies has cropped up critiquing the western approach. But the reverse stereotyping that we have given in to is making us an intolerant regressive society.</p>

<p>A great nation cannot be created with petty people who continue to treat women, Indian or otherwise, as objects of lust and violence.</p>


India can not pave the road to growth and development with hackneyed ideas prevailing in regressive minds

A Swiss couple got beaten up by a group of people at Fatehpur Sikri, Agra. This beaten, swollen, bloody bodies of two human beings do not go down well with our national image. The group of people who committed this heinous crime behaved like barbarians but India is a civilised nation. We have in the past, in moments of frenzy or because of deep-seated religious values, killed few people here and there. But these victims have mostly come from minority marginalised communities. We want foreign investment and at the same time beat up foreigners. × What prompted a group of people to bludgeon a foreign couple can be a matter of introspection. We can trivialise it as a single episode of violence without context and feel simply sad as to how these uneducated poor Indians do not even understand the shastraic injections that ask Hindus to treat all "Atithis" i.e. guests as ‘deva’ or god. Nodding in despair, we can mutter to ourselves, this is indeed ‘incredible India’ - we want foreign investment and at the same time beat up foreigners. Taking refuge in despair or in tradition, however, is not the answer to the situation. Actions are needed and, more importantly, introspection as to what acts as sources of these kinds of violence. Beating up foreigners is not new to Indians. We beat up African nationals with impunity. But there a clear difference between treatment meted out to black folks and the white people visiting the Aryavarta. Indians don’t consider themselves black. Far from it, our extensive interactions as journalists confirmed this that many Indians see Africans as monsters and cannibals. But we don’t share similar racial animosity towards the white people. With our pride in the Aryan heritage and deep fascination about white skin, we receive westerners with a bunch of contradictory feelings. They are ‘mlecchas’ or irreligious, unclean, promiscuous, are divorcing all the time, and the girls grow up with no or little values. Their mothers are not like our mothers. Their mothers smoke, drink and don’t spend their lives in the kitchen as ours do. In all these areas we feel superior. We have something to teach them. Millions of foreigners visit Agra every year. Both Fatehpur Sikri and Taj Mahal are global destinations for tourists. × But our fascination with the West or, more precisely, with the Whites don’t end either. They have ruled us and, hence, they had to be superior in some intrinsic way. They are rich. They speak English-the ultimate mark of education. They are confident, even their women are. So, we can’t claim that it is jingoism that prompted this act of violence. People living in and around Agra meet and mix with foreigners on a daily basis. Millions of foreigners visit Agra every year. Both Fatehpur Sikri and Taj Mahal are global destinations for tourists. The white couple was subjected to violence is the news but, in reality, the aggression was in the first placed directed towards the white woman. Maybe the couples were holding hands or maybe not. Maybe they were kissing or maybe not. We may indulge ourselves, just like the cop did, in all kinds of speculations to fathom what provoked the violence. But emphasising on the gesture will miss the bigger point as to the mindset that causes the action. Even if the couple did not publicly express their affection, this violence could have taken place. My friend, another white woman from the US, during her brief research trip to Delhi, was every day subjected to sexually explicit comments, people stalked her, threw stuff in her living room etc. She almost escaped Delhi. An expert in South Asian Studies, it is sad that she is too emotionally overwhelmed to visit Delhi again. A great nation cannot be created with petty people who continue to treat women, Indian or otherwise, as objects of lust and violence. × The white people continue to be seen as the superior race; its women folks very desirable but unattainable. One doesn't need to be very smart to realise that the long history of colonial subjugation has shaped our views of the master race. But deeply entrenched within this feeling of inferiority is a perception that white women are sexually promiscuous. While Indian women are shaped by tradition to be monogamous and be under purdah, the white women, on the other hand, because of the natural ease they display in mingling with members of the opposite sex are seen as more open to sexual advances. The Swiss guy got beaten up not because he is a white or for being a foreigner but because he stood in the way of the expression of this lewd behaviour. The stereotypes that we nurture in our heads have taken a life of their own. We don’t exercise agencies over them. Instead, they have come to control our thoughts and actions. Historically speaking, the Western world for centuries have propagated such stereotypical views about the oriental men and women. They have portrayed us as virile, lazy, dishonest, passive, scheming, and our womenfolk, particularly, as baby churning machine with no sense of independence. An entire genre of postcolonial studies has cropped up critiquing the western approach. But the reverse stereotyping that we have given in to is making us an intolerant regressive society. A great nation cannot be created with petty people who continue to treat women, Indian or otherwise, as objects of lust and violence.

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