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Snapshot of the day

September 9, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

The United States presidential election is now less than two months away but Kamala Harris now has two contenders competing for the attention of Indian Americans. In his first trip to the US as Leader of Opposition, Rahul Gandhi kicked off a three-day tour in Texas on Sunday. Gandhi is on a mission to court the Indian diaspora, which has so far been seen as a reservoir of support for the BJP and Narendra Modi.

Not to be outdone, Modi, who will be visiting New York later this month for the UN’s ‘Summit of the Future’, has lined up a community event for himself. Literally. It is