“Warmest congratulations, my friend, on your historic election victory. As you build on the successes of your previous term, I look forward to renewing our partnership to further strengthen the India-US global and strategic partnership. Together, we work for the betterment of our peoples and to promote global peace, stability and prosperity.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was one of the first world leaders to enthusiastically congratulate, first via X and then with a phone call, newly elected President Donald Trump on his accomplishment: a landslide victory over challenger Kamala Harris. Who, despite being half of Indian descent, was not the U.S. presidential candidate for whom the majority of India was rooting or for whom, in the final analysis and data in hand, the Indian diaspora in the United States voted: who also, in the past, had voted en masse for her and the Democrats. At the time, when Senator Harris joined the slate of Democratic presidential candidates in 2020, India's media had raved about her origins, of which she seemed to take pride: Kamala had even cooked a masala dosa (a kind of crepe typical of South India) on video with actress and screenwriter Mindy Kaling and tamarind rice with TV chef Padma Lakshmi to celebrate her election as vice-president. The passion for cooking, however, had soon faded as had the importance attached to Asian roots: Kamala, and the malignant say to ride the prevailing cultural wave in the Democratic Party, had increasingly identified herself as a 'black woman of African-American descent.' Not only that: as vice-president, beyond the more or less formal pleasantries during Modi's visits to the United States, not only had she never traveled to India but of India she had almost only spoken to criticize government measures and the state of Indian democracy and human rights. Incidentally: as they would say in India, karma (fate) does not forgive. Trump won with the same avalanche of votes with which Modi won in 2020 only, this being the U.S., no one has anything to object to about the state of American democracy. Returning to Harris and the Indian diaspora, media sympathies in Gandhi's homeland have consequently turned elsewhere: to Usha Chilukuri, for example, wife of newly elected Vice President JD Vance. The lady, a Yale graduate with a doctorate from Cambridge, is a successful lawyer but, more importantly, one who has never disavowed her Indian origins and Hindu faith. Of Democratic denomination, like almost the entire Indian diaspora, she seems to have changed her mind in recent years because of the party's extreme cultural positions. So too has Tulsi Gabbard, who switched to the presidential team after serving for years in the Democratic Party.Tulsi, who is not of Indian descent but is of Hindu faith, was one of the stars of Trump's campaign. Who had been vying for the presidential nomination by a trio of candidates of Indian origin: Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and Trump's first ambassador to the United Nations; entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who had entered as an outsider in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and received considerable support. And finally Hirsh Vardhan Singh, an engineer. On the other hand, according to a Pew Research Center analysis, Indians are the fastest growing racial or ethnic group of eligible voters in the United States. The research reveals that their numbers have grown by 15 percent, or about two million eligible voters over the past four years: faster than the 3 percent growth rate of all eligible voters over the same period and the 12 percent growth rate of Hispanic eligible voters. And, as Forbes magazine reported some time ago, about one percent of the U.S. Congress is made up of citizens of Indian descent: five members of Congress, the so-called 'samosa caucus' (samosas are a kind of panzerotti stuffed with potatoes and spices) and about 40 politicians in local governments. In recent years, citizens of Indian descent also hold the record for voter turnout among Asian-origin groups: and apparently, while maintaining the traditional bias toward the Democratic Party and having the samosa caucus re-elected, they voted for Trump and 'Second Lady' Usha Vance this time. After all, as PM Modi stated in his speech to the U.S. Congress last year, “The Samosa Caucus is now the flavor of the House. I hope it will grow and bring all the diversity of Indian cuisine here.” And also, they say, of its traditional acceptance for cultural and religious diversity: denied only by those who, like Kamala, know little or nothing about India.