From India to the world

How we behave abroad has its origins back home

- BY SANJAY SRIVASTAVA

THERE IS A strong sense of Indian superiority among the older middle class towards other minority migrant communities in the west.

Then there is the rise of a newer middle class, now travelling with new wealth that allows them to behave in a certain way around the world. This is part of an internal Indian discourse about exceptionalism, but it also reflects a deep sense of inferiority. This civilisational discourse has developed over the last couple of decades.