Indian immigrants have to wake up and smell the coffee. They will be as much a target for populists as other immigrant communities to whom they imagine themselves superior
Indians have long been proud of what they see as their outperformance in the information technology sector. Companies such as Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services dominate IT-enabled services, bringing home billions of dollars in profits. US technology giants including Alphabet, Microsoft and IBM have Indian-origin CEOs. India-trained engineers labour in the trenches of Silicon Valley and invisibly help Western companies adapt to the digital age.