The murder of a 28-year-old student, Chandrasekhar Pole, from Telangana during a robbery at a gas station in Denton, Texas, on October 3, brings to focus the growing vulnerability of the Indian diaspora in the United States. It is the latest case in a surge of violence targeting people of Indian origin, including students, professionals, and small business owners in America this year. It follows the gruesome beheading last month of a Dallas motel manager, Chandramouli Nagamallaiah, who had migrated from Andhra Pradesh five years ago. Also in September, a 49-year-old Gujarati woman named Kiran Patel was shot dead while fleeing from a robbery at her convenience store in South Carolina.

These were evidently not explicitly race-based crimes, but even nonpartisan sources confirm that there has

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