The piece by Tunku Varadarajan on Usha Chilukuri Vance in Wall Street Journal is one of the most ideologically driven pieces about Indian Americans!! I don’t have much to say about Usha Vance but this moment is producing all kinds insidious narratives about Indian Americans. 1/1 Varadarajan is using classic model minority trope: Indian Americans have succeeded without affirmative action and grievance politics. It is not only to present a particular view of Indian American success but to undermine the struggle for racial equality by African Americans .1/2

The term Hinduphobia is being deployed rather frequently in the U.S. and other western countries with sizable Indian diasporic population. The use is mostly coming from formations that want to shield the current political regime in India led by BJP/RSS!! 1/1 I have been thinking about this term a lot lately and I engage with the term seriously: the term is loosely deployed to suggest that there is a widespread hatred of Hinduism and Hindus in the west ( something akin to Islamophobia or anti-semitism loosely speaking).1/2

1/16 One provision in Citizenship Amend. Act in India focuses on Overseas Citizens of India (OCI). #CAA is being challenged by people for linking citizenship to religion & its likely use for taking away citizenship from those who can't produce documents, particularly Muslims. 2/16 Here I want to focus on the OCI provision in #CAA and its linkages to diasporic politics.