Indian diaspora – Brown Pundits

Indians assimilate a bit too well?

September 27, 2025September 29, 2025X.T.MBrown Pundits, Diaspora, India, Partition, Postcolonialism & the Global South, Race, Religion, X.T.MAssimilation, Culture, Identity, Immigration, India, Indian diaspora, Multiculturalism, South Asia, United Kingdom, United States14 Comments

Fascinating for me how two very different Indian-Americans are battling it out. There seems to be far less Indian asabiyyah?

Open Thread; Trans in the Muslim World

July 26, 2025July 27, 2025X.T.MBrown Pundits, India, X.T.MBharat, Civilizational Gender Norms, Civilizational Strain, Cultural Dislocation, Digital Bharat, Domestic Violence, Faith and Identity, Fake Embassies, Gender Identity in the Ummah, Gender Nonconformity, gender violence, GST, Hijra, India Today, Indian diaspora, Institutional Failure, Ireland Attack, Islam and Gender, Islamic Law and Sexuality, Islamic Reform, Law and Order, LGBTQ in South Asia, Marginal Identities, Modernity and Violence, Muslim LGBTQ+, Muslim World, Postcolonial Bodies, Postcolonial State, Public Safety, Queer Islam, Queerness and Faith, South Asia, South Asian Trans Culture, Street Crime in the West, Tax Bureaucracy, Tech vs State, Trans Muslims, Trans Rights in Islam, Trans Visibility, Transgender, UPI52 Comments

Rest in Peace

June 13, 2025July 10, 2025X.T.MBrown Pundits, India, X.T.MAhmedabad, Air India crash, aviation tragedy, Blog, Diaspora, diaspora journeys, family loss, Gatwick-bound flight, grief, India, Indian diaspora, Indian doctors abroad, Komi Vyas, migration, new beginnings, plane crash victims, Prateek Joshi, Religion, remembrance, South Asian diaspora, Tragedy, Udaipur

This is so incredibly heartbreaking; this beautiful family excited about a new life in the United Kingdom.

The picture was taken to celebrate ‘new beginnings’ as Komi Vyas, a doctor who worked in Udaipur, had quit her job and was moving to join her husband, Dr Prateek Joshi, in London, with their three children.

But, tragically, the family are among the at least 241 dead after the Gatwick-bound aircraft crashed moments after take-off from Ahmedabad Airport in the northwestern Indian state of Gujarat yesterday.

May they and the rest of the victims of the Air India crash rest in the Highest Heaven.

Everyone Western Becomes White Eventually

June 11, 2025July 10, 2025X.T.MBrown Pundits, Culture, Politics, Race, United States, X.T.MAfrican-American resistance, America, Assimilation, Bhutan Lhotshampa, Blog, Civilisation, Cultural integration, Culture, diaspora dynamics, Ethnic enclaves, Global migration, Immigration, Indian diaspora, Individualism, Intergenerational change, Jewish assimilation, Politics, Race, Racial identity, Second-generation immigrants, Western civilisation, Whiteness14 Comments

brown: if the fresh inputs from india is reduced ( because of immigration laws and raising prosperity back home), how long can ‘indians in u s a’ remain an effective group? i feel that they will dissolve in next 20 years.

Nivedita: That is such an interesting take! I agree actually. Indians are pretty much white adjacent and are intermarrying with whites, so in all probability what you predict might actually happen.

That’s a sharp observation, and worth expanding. The truth is, in the West, all immigrants eventually become “white”—not in phenotype, but in assimilation, in aesthetic, in aspiration. Continue reading Everyone Western Becomes White Eventually