The following article by Ishaan Tharoor was in the February 27, 2017 Washington Post’s Today’s World View e-newsletter:
To most Americans, a shooting that took place last Wednesday will be remembered as just another incident of gun violence in a country where homicides are tragically commonplace and where far too many disturbed loners have ready access to firearms.
To many Indians, though, the murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla in a suburban Kansas town was the harshest warning yet about the reality of President Trump’s America.
Kuchibhotla, an aviation systems engineer at satellite navigation company Garmin, was having an after-work drink with his friend and colleague Alok Madasani at their regular bar in Olathe, a town 20 miles southwest of Kansas City. The duo, Indian nationals who both received their masters degrees in the United States and were on valid visas, were confronted by 51-year-old Adam Purinton, who started hectoring them with ethnic slurs. Continue reading “Today’s WorldView: An Act of American Terror in Trump’s Heartland”