Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.
India deserves a stronger voice on the global stage. But, expecting Indian Americans, increasingly under attack from both ends, to continue sacrificing and paying for it is not a sound strategy.
From Indian-origin people being kicked out of Uganda overnight to facing racism in Canada and the UK today, these instances offer lessons for the Indian diaspora.
A 2024 paper found that Deloitte pays US citizens working in tax and audit 10 per cent more than H-1B holders, with ‘critics’ calling it a cost-saving mechanism.
Drunk on the Kool-Aid of India’s imminent Vishwaguru status and the Madison Square Garden rallies, we’re convinced that our obnoxious behaviour will be accepted wherever we go.
In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.
The excessive publicity about Indian success stories and their high income and wealth levels has begun to breed envy and resentment in non-elite Americans.
In ‘The Conscience Network’, Sugata Srinivasaraju focuses on the pivotal role of the Indian diaspora in US in resisting Indira Gandhi’s authoritarian rule.
Barring her first two Budgets, Nirmala Sitharaman has always ended the year with either a lower fiscal deficit figure than what she had projected or by adhering to the target.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Mayor Mamdani has no no complicated relationship with with Indians or Hindus. The complication is with the anti Muslim forces – the Hinduvtas. Let’s face facts that the Indians of America fall in the lot of Hinduvtas, buts long as they create no problems, the Mayor has nothing to fear. Indians are never firm about moral convictions. They change overnight
Mamdani is to New York what is Kejariwal is to Dehli…. His election shows that freebies are powerful vote getter whether it’s Dehli or New York…. Leftist are jumping at Mamdani election but his election has started the process of implosion of Democratic party.
Mayor Mamdani has no no complicated relationship with with Indians or Hindus. The complication is with the anti Muslim forces – the Hinduvtas. Let’s face facts that the Indians of America fall in the lot of Hinduvtas, buts long as they create no problems, the Mayor has nothing to fear. Indians are never firm about moral convictions. They change overnight
Mamdani is to New York what is Kejariwal is to Dehli…. His election shows that freebies are powerful vote getter whether it’s Dehli or New York…. Leftist are jumping at Mamdani election but his election has started the process of implosion of Democratic party.