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Another Indian-American has joined the US presidential race. Healthcare and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has announced his candidature for the 2024 election. The 37-year-old, whose parents migrated to the US from Kerala, grew up there and is the author of Woke, Inc: Inside the Corporate America Social Justice Scam. He also takes aim at Indian-origin Nikki Haley for the Republican bid for the White House and former President Donald Trump among others. “This is not just a political campaign,” he said, “this is a cultural movement to create a new dream for the next generation…” While the odds look stacked against him, given his formidable opponents, his ambition is sound. Diaspora belief in the American glass ceiling on ethnicity has been shattered, so to speak. This is called the Obama effect. Whether the same is true for gender, however, remains questionable. It is an affront to the country’s acclaimed soft power. Will a Nikki Haley vs Kamala Harris contest unfold someday? This will be important. Not for their respective India links, the irrelevance of which credibly testifies to open politics, but for this male bastion being breached for too long.