It started as a few offhand comments from the Vice President, but they have blown up into an international firestorm about faith, identity and silence.
After JD Vance publicly described his wife, Usha, as coming from an 'atheist family' in what critics saw as an appeal to Christian voters, social media erupted. Many accused the Indian-American lawyer of quietly standing by as her husband distorted her family's Hindu roots to score political points.
