I am reasonably certain now that 90% of the NRIs (Non-Resident Indians) in the US are bigoted reactionaries who are hopelessly drunk on Modi.  Enjoying the cozy comforts of living in Jersey and Pittsburgh and Cleveland and Boston and Atlanta and Detroit and San Francisco, they don't come face to face of countless small and big cruelties of everyday Indian society.  For them, nationalism is not about civilized decency, it has to be a political project tied up not with Hinduism, but with Hindutva.  Their arguments are only grounded in grievances, real or imagined, mostly the latter.  Sitting thousands of miles away, it is so easy to pine for your ''glorious motherland'' and run down the progressive elements of society, who are always swimming against the tide of majoritarian politics in this country.