Currently there are 60 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Instead of celebrating the worldwide rise of Indians in various fields, including the current British PM, the usual politics of envy and tribalism trumps any celebration. It is fair game to criticize capitalism and the politics is has bred, including PM Sunak's rise to 10 Downing Street. It is fair game to assess the racial imbalance and racial (in)equality in any society, the discriminations which hold women and people of color back, casteism (brown on brown racism), etc. But is it too much to ask that the first non-white British PM be celebrated in some small measure instead of the hit piece below? I accept the article has elements of truth but the usual criticisms of right-wing politics is used by various people quoted in the article to attacking the British PM on his incredible accomplishment.
Best regards, George On Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 12:25:23 AM PDT, V M <vmin...@gmail.com> wrote: https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Reading-about-Rishi/195919 The elfin 42-year-old is a walking trigger warning. The first UK Prime Minister since Disraeli whose ethnic roots lie outside the British Isles, and the youngest in 200 years, Rishi Sunak is also an observant Hindu who made his first official appearances wearing the distinctive *kautuka* around his wrist. It’s impossible to ignore the historical symbolism of someone like him taking residence in 10 Downing Street, where Winston Churchill told his India Secretary that “I hate Indians. They’re a beastly people, with a beastly religion.”
