In dusty archives exists a black and white photo of Narendrabhai Modi, as a jhola-carrying RSS pracharak outside the White House. Twenty years later PM Modi is in snappy suits beaming with US CEOs. And why not? From Kochi to Karnal, we Indians are singing California Dreamin’. Even at the height of the Cold War over a million ‘Soviet-friendly’ Indians lived in the US. Never mind if Americans can’t tell the difference between a Sikh turban and a Taliban one, or between ‘Indians’ of South Asian or Cherokee extraction, we never want to say bye bye Miss American Pie.
From Indra Nooyi to Satya Nadella to Sundar Pichai to Manjul Bhargava today the desi dream is the American Dream. Who do Read More
