WE ARE THE WORLD
THE PRIDE WE TAKE in the achievements of Indians abroad has always been vicarious, but in a year when coronavirus has made borders irrelevant, it is members of our diaspora who have given us the most cause for cheer. While the likes of Soumya Swaminathan are spearheading the fight against Covid-19 at the World Health Organization, politicians and economists such as Rishi Sunak and Gita Gopinath are striving hard to help nations and their people mitigate financial hardship. These are Indians who were made for the world.
Not only are the Hindujas and Mittals again finding themselves on the world’s rich lists, the efforts of India-born Silicon Valley CEOs like Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella and Shantanu Narayen are helping us all navigate our suddenly hyper-digital lives. As issues of race and discrimination push the world toward a great reckoning, it is again the voices of those like Kamala Harris that herald progress. The US vice-presidential nominee recently said, “This virus has no eyes, and yet it knows exactly how we see each other.” The one fact that Harris’s ascent makes clear is that the world finally sees India differently.
NO.1 KAMALA DEVI HARRIS
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Because she is the first Indian American and also the first woman of colour to run for the position of US vice-president on a major-party ticket
Because she promises to repair the fractured racial ties now tearing apart contemporary American life and politics. During a recent speech, she rightly said, “There is no vaccine for racism”
she always talks truth to power. Before Joe Biden chose her as his running mate, she had publicly rebuked
