With the Karnataka Assembly elections hovering around the corner early next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a Congress-mukt Bharat does not seem to be too far away.

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.