His is a modern, multi-faith family grounded in progressive values—precisely the kind of modern Muslim the Hindu Right wants to delegitimise. Acknowledging Zohran could mean acknowledging an Indian legacy that Modi is trying to bury.

I write @themorningcontext.bsky.social: "The convergence of economic anxiety, cultural resentment, and political opportunity has created ideal conditions for anti-Indian sentiment to flourish. The far-right has successfully reframed Indian-American success... into an invasion narrative."

"Every summit Modi skips is another opportunity lost, another relationship weakened, another signal sent that India is retreating from the world stage. The great irony is that Modi’s fear of personal embarrassment is guaranteeing national degradation."

"The blood spilled in Leh is the price paid by people whose only crime was believing that they deserved to be heard by their own government. A government that shoots its own citizens for demanding their constitutional rights has lost all moral authority. The question is whether anyone still cares."

"If India is poorly governed, economically fragile, geopolitically unmoored or socially divided, the diaspora cannot compensate for those weaknesses. Perhaps it is not even interested in doing so and it should not be expected to." [N/N]

Israel’s narrative—a small democracy surrounded by enemies, with Holocaust memory as its moral reference—resonates in US political culture. India’s narrative is murkier: a rising power with internal contradictions, communal tensions, democratic backsliding, high unemployment and authoritarianism.

"Comparing Indian-American influence to Jewish American political power reveals not just a gap but a chasm. It exposes uncomfortable truths about race, money, the evolution of institutions and diaspora politics itself."

"Ultimately, the operational impact of the Saudi Arabia-Pakistan defense pact may prove more modest than initial assessments suggest. Pakistan has a well-documented history of overplaying a strong hand, from its relationship with the United States to its early partnership with China."

"This systematic complicity isn’t accidental. Research by
Joyojeet Pal et al demonstrates how Indian sportspeople systematically align with ruling party initiatives, unlike their American counterparts who engage critically with political issues." [N/N]

"It is no surprise that every major cricket decision in India now serves BJP interests. What we witnessed during the Asia Cup was thus inevitable. It was sport subordinated entirely to political propaganda. This raises profound questions about Indian cricket’s moral leadership."

“Indian-Americans are successful, wealthy and visible, but not willing to be mobilised as a real political force for India. Modi’s noisy rallies and community events may have led to asset-building headlines but they have not built anything of substance.”

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"The matches against Pakistan serve Modi's political needs perfectly - providing hyper-nationalist theatre that drip-feeds hatred and enmity against the neighbour. This calculated cynicism represents the death of sport and the triumph of performative politics. ...This is not cricket. It never was."

"What unfolds in Dubai over the next few days will not be sport. It will be another episode in the ongoing theatre of toxic Hindu nationalism, where the primary audience is domestic and the primary purpose is political."

India is not inevitably destined for state collapse, but current trends are concerning. The Modi govt’s response to growing vulnerabilities—further centralisation, institutional capture & digital shutdowns—appears to be exacerbating underlying problems...explosive conditions a small spark can kindle

The pattern across South Asia is clear: economic frustration + digital coordination + weakened institutions = government collapse. From Sri Lanka to Bangladesh to Nepal, it's the same playbook. India exhibits all these conditions, potentially at greater scale and intensity than its neighhbours.