The only reason #RishiSunak is causing paroxyms of joy is because he is #uppercaste and #Hindu here is a list of other Indian origin PMs and in "white palce"
Leo Varadkar Ireland
Pravind Jugnauth Mauratius
Kamla Persad-Bissessar Trinidad & Tobago
Mahendra Chaudhry - Fiji
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Bharrat Jagdeo- PM Guyana
Cheddi Jagan - President Guyana
Donald Ramoatar- President Guyana
Moses Nagamootoo- PM Guyana
Irfan Ali - PM Guyana ( current)
Dayendranath Burrenchobay – former Governor-General of Mauritius
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Anerood Jugnauth – former prime minister
Pravind Jugnauth – current prime minister
Dev Manraj – former Financial Secretary
Abdool Razack Mohamed – one of the three founding fathers of independent Mauritius
Kailash Purryag – former president of Mauritius
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Navin Ramgoolam – former prime minister
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam – former prime minister and one of the three founding fathers of independent Mauritius
Veerasamy Ringadoo – former president
Cassam Uteem – former president
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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim – former President
Prithvirajsing Roopun – current President
All the above in Mauritius alone
Anand Satyanand – first Governor-General of New Zealand of Asian descent
António Costa – Current Prime Minister of Portugal
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Alfredo Nobre da Costa- former Prime Minister of Portugal
S. R. Nathan – 6th President of Singapore
Wavel Ramkalawan – current President of Seychelles
Fred Ramdat Misier – former President of Suriname (1982–1988)
Errol Alibux – former Prime Minister of Suriname
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Pretaap Radhakishun – former Prime Minister
Ramsewak Shankar – former president (1988–1990)
Deven Nair - President Singapore
@nameshiv Very interesting story of Gama. He came, nay was invited to the old Mysore state for a series of exhibition matches. He said yes on the condition that he be given 45 days to prepare in Bangalore. He was a tenant in our old Bangalore Bungalow ( my great granddad was a forester)1/n
@nameshiv 2/n in the service of the State, so he let out his outhouse, bordering a Mohammedan Block, which in itself housed muslim officers of state. Our family being vegetarians had to let out the house on being asked, as it was next to a saw mill, a lake and a Mohammdan block
@nameshiv 3/n well he did stay there,as told by my now 93 year old uncle, his breakfast was 24 freshly laid eggs, with 2 liters of desi buffalo milk, and a small lamb for lunch, he would swim in the lake nearby and do "kushti" , dotted with breaks for namaz. He also trained police
@anand_srini As discussed thought of doing a series on human stories of the economic and pandemic crisis. I will focus on what I see around and how it is hitting many people at all income levels 1/n
Young entrepreneur with young kids moves from Navsari Gujrat to Bangalore to open a office supplies, photocopying shop etc. Pledges jewels to start off, hit hard by no business, debt including rent piles up. leaves back for Navsari on scooter with wife and kids. Dead business 2/n
Teacher with BA BEd , wife of a painter who is uneducated. works in "convent" teaching English. School hasn't paid since April, now asked her to resign as there are no new admissions and many parents haven't paid fees. Is assisting husband on odd jobs 3/n
While everyone is at it, and tweeting #blacklivesmatter, and rightly so. Let me tell you a story that haunts me every single day. This began in the 1920's and tragically ended in 2002, though it continues even to this day. 1/n
My great grand dad retired to Bangalore and as was the custom in those days got a cleaner to cart away night soil at his new home. A young woman, ironically called Lakshmi, who might have been all of 13/14 joined the service, she was still working in our house age 85+ 2/n
I was about 6 or 7 when I recognized her as a person, She would still come around to clean the newer toilets, which curiously had two doors, one from within the house for us and another rarely opened door for "them". I remember her vividly, the most wrinkled, bent person 3/n