Silence Of The Lambs: Indian Diaspora’s Cautious Stance On Modi

Summary of this article

Shashi Tharoor’s disappointment overlooks how diaspora enthusiasm for Modi was often orchestrated, not organic.

Indian-Americans, settled and prosperous, see themselves as Americans first and avoid risks to protect their life in the US.

The community is fragmented, driven more by sectarian loyalties and post-9/11 Islamophobia than by allegiance to Indian politics.

Very many people respect Shashi Tharoor, the Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, as a perspicacious observer of men and matters; some even regard him a prescient in the art of changing loyalties. It was, therefore, entirely natural that he would have been the first to voice disappointment over the American-Indian community’s studied reticence—and, apparent, disloyalty—in the context of Donald