October - 2003 issue > Last Word

By Romi Mahajan

IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME FOR INDIAN-AMERICAN technocrats to espouse a new politics, that time is now—not a politics of disassociation and apathy (living in our cocoons, making money, and buying new cars) but a politics of scrutiny, of active engagement and linkage.
Of the many reasons for this, three stand out.
• We live in and contribute a great deal to a country bent on empire building and colonial domination.
• We live largely in our hermetic boxes, barely and rarely associating with other ethnic groups and minorities in the U.S.
• A huge backlash against “Indians” and “India” has started, precipitated by the movement of U.S. jobs to India and of “jobs for Americans” to Indian-Americans.

While these might appear to be independent, they are connected and have to be seen as such. However let’s look at each one separately first.

Contributing to Empire
With regard to per capita income, Indian-Americans constitute the most affluent ethnic group in the U.S. What this translates directly into is that we contribute to the U.S. machine at unmatched levels.

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