A nti-Indian sentiment is not new, but the recent surge across the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia reveals something deeper and more worrying than isolated acts of hate. It reflects a growing cocktail of economic anxiety, online radicalisation, and the populist hunger for easy villains.

The irony is hard to miss: even Indians who have built their public careers echoing the language of Western conservatism are not spared. In podcasts, comment sections, and even in the streets, their message is blunt—your politics may align with ours, but your skin, your name, your origins do not.

Yet, while racism against Indians grows louder in the West, the reaction back home is strangely muted. Perhaps because many Indians assume it has nothing to do with them. They assume it to be “foreign problems

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