Whether one should call the Indian subcontinent ‘South Asia’ is a debate that keeps getting regurgitated. There have been two latest triggers.

First is the coverage of the sordid Pakistani gang-rape saga in which Leftist mainstream media in the West has repeatedly referred to these grooming gangs as ‘Asian’, in spite of the fact that these groups almost entirely comprise Pakistani Muslim men. It is as if by hiding their real identity, these newspapers and channels are shielding these monsters’ sentiments from getting hurt.

Whether you call a group of men “Asian" or “South Asian", you are erasing the national heritage with an obvious political motive. You are also intentionally hiding the truth. That is what led to the wokism getting the bad rap that it did. Deservedly so. pic.twitter.com/KsVjEi3Nfb— Anurag Mairal (@mairal) June 17, 2025

Second was a post by Neal Katyal, US Supreme Court lawyer who calls himself an “extremist centrist". He posted approvingly about Meenakshi Ahamed’s book titled Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America. But guess what? He said the book was about the “success of the South Asian diaspora".

Amused netizens immediately started asking Katyal where he found the reference to ‘South Asia’, when Ahamed’s book is clearly and specifically titled Indian Genius? They asked why this attempt to dilute and nullify the Indian identity?

If one wanted to be historically accurate, Indian subcontinent is a more precise term because almost all of it was once part of undivided India, broken violently into parts as a direct aftermath of the British divide-and-rule policy. It was as if the........

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