India, Nov. 7 -- There's something incongruous about this moment. We are taking vicarious pleasure in the rise of Indians in America, but our politicians are quarrelling over the so-called foreign hand at home.

This week, we claimed prideful ownership in the win in Los Angeles of Nithya Raman, a Kerala-born American who just became the city's mayor. We have leapt with delight that the politicians at the helm of the US's most significant cities - New York and LA - have Indian roots. And we are quite charmed when America's first Muslim Senator, Abdul El-Sayed, invokes his wife Dr Sarah Jukaku's desi links to Karnataka.

Now contrast this with the fact that the biggest headlines from domestic politics this week have been a heated confrontat...