THE INDOFILES

If you haven’t heard, Justice David Souter just announced his decision to retire from the Supreme Court. And so now Obama has his first chance to nominate someone. It’s all very exciting, if you are into this kind of thing. I have a little bit of the excitement one has when their favorite team has [...]

First, some numbers. According to the 2000 Census, there are 2.1 million South Asians in America. Of those, nearly 1.9 million are from India, 204,000 from Pakistan, 25,000 from Sri Lanka, and 57,000 from Bangladesh.
This population is variously referred to by the individual nations, and also as Indians, Indian-Americans, South Asians, desis. [...]