This crisis has once again captured national attention through a raw exchange involving Soumitra Shukla. Now he's a Harvard research fellow and Yale-educated economist from Jharkhand, India. Shukla posted a critique of the relentless anti-Indian rhetoric targeting immigrants. Within hours, thousands of hostile accounts flooded his timeline, demanding he leave the country. The situation shifted when prominent U.S. economist Steven Durlauf intervened to publicly defend the young scholar.