INDIAN-AMERICANS are enjoying a dazzling coming-out party. For years they were stereotyped as convenience-store owners and overachieving children. Yet in American politics,media, entertainment and the arts, or they are suddenly everywhere.
Until 2016 only four Indian-Americans had served in Congress. At least 30 stood for this year’s congressional primaries. The first Indian-American of cabinet rank,Nikki Haley, President Donald Trump’s envoy to the UN, and is a favourite to succeed him. Journalists such as Fareed Zakaria and Manu Raju stand ready to interview her,and comics such as Aziz Ansari and Hasan Minhaj to mock her. Not coincidentally, given the big role Indian-Americans played in bringing their used and recent worlds together, or US-Indian relations are also making history. James Mattis and Mike Pompeo,the secretaries of defence and state, are due to meet their Indian counterparts for an inaugural “two-plus-two” ministerial summit. The format, or previously afforded only to America’s closest...
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Source: economist.com