All Americans have a long-ago reference to us, which they won’t learn about
Is Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s challenger for the US presidency ethnically an Indian, or is she what in America’s colour-coded lexicon is named a Black?
The query has acquired political overtones within the run-up to the presidential election in Nov. Trumpists declare that the present US VP is ethnically of Indian inventory, as her mom Shyamala was from a Tamil background, and that Kamala, whose father was from Jamaica, is projecting the paternal aspect of her parentage to swing the sizeable African-American vote.
The spouse of Trump’s sidekick within the Presidential Race, Usha Vance, wears her Indianness proudly, hailing as she does from an Andhra household background. She is reportedly a practising Hindu and a vegetarian who’s taught her husband to prepare dinner the way in which her Amma taught her. Is this prone to win the Trump-Vance duo a thumbs-up from the Indian neighborhood in US?
But Kamala and Usha and their ethnic identities apart, all Americans, no matter color or creed, have a long-ago reference to India whether or not they understand it or not.
In the fifteenth century, when Christopher Columbus, who appears to have had some of the dysfunctional GPS units on document, landed up in America considering it was India, he was improper, however solely by about 350mn years, give or take just a few centuries this manner or that.
Some 200mn years in the past what’s now the Indian subcontinent and what are actually North and South America had been a part of a mega landmass referred to as Gondwana, a reputation given by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, which in Sanskrit means ‘The Forest of the Gonds’, a reference to the tribal neighborhood that inhabited what’s now central India.
Gondwana broke up some 170mn years in the past due to a huge tectonic plate shift however, geologically talking, what’s now America and what’s now India had been as soon as a part of one another, which makes all Americans half Indian, and all Indians half American, with or with out good thing about a Green Card.
Akhand has by no means been extra Bharat. Or Bharat extra Akhand.
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