India’s huge and growing population of workers and legal migrants in the United States should loudly defend India’s strategic interests, says a senior Indian politician.

“Silence is complicity,” wrote Shashi Tharoor , a UK-born politician who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs in India’s parliament. He continued :

The silence of the diaspora is about the tension between success and solidarity, between assimilation and allegiance. For us in India, it is also about remembering that the voice of a community is not measured by its wealth or its titles, but by its willingness to stand up for the motherland when it matters most.

The demand that Indians in America — often called the “desi” population — champion Hindu or Indian solidarity is echoed by many Indi

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