It remains tough for Indian-Americans to climb to the top of US politics. First racism hurts them, then prosperity weakens their minority card. And the community’s rich doesn’t bother to help much
Donald Trump has won New Hampshire’s primary as thumpingly as Iowa’s. Nikki Haley’s odds of becoming Republicans’ presidential nominee are now super bleak. Since money is equal to power, and definitely so in America, one would have expected the economic might of Indians to extend to politics. But between Haley’s floundering and Vivek Ramaswamy’s stillborn presidential campaigns, it is clear we are still far from that.
Vivek Ramaswamy at a Republican Party dinner in Des Moines, Iowa. His campaign rhetoric of “put merit back” and end dependence on China has struck a chord with young Americans (Photo: AP)