The recent murder of Indian origin techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla in the US is a violent expression and kick start of what has been bickering up on the back-burners of our contemporary times and history. Such socio-psychological developments that led an American to kill young Srinivas have been rooted in the race and ethnicity perspectives not only caused by the globalisation, but also by the changing economic aspects of today's world.

The West's "next confrontation," observes MJ Akbar, an Indian Muslim author, "is definitely going to come from the Muslim world. It is in the sweep of the Islamic nations from the Maghreb to Pakistan that the struggle for a new world order will begin." (1996, Quoted by Samuel P Huntington)