A social media post by Indian entrepreneur Devaiah Bopanna has ignited a heated debate online after he questioned why some Indian-Americans, particularly high-profile CEOs and founders, appear to adopt American accents while many long-term Indian residents in the US do not.
In a post that quickly gained traction on X, Bopanna reflected on his own circle of engineering friends who moved to the United States for their master’s degrees between 2008-2013 and have been living there for nearly two decades. Despite spending what he described as “about 18 years” in the country, “nearly half your speaking life” many of them, he noted, still speak without a noticeable American accent.
