Rishi Sunak has become the first Prime Minister of colour, the first Indian-origin Prime Minister as also the first Hindu Prime Minister of the UK. The news hit the world on the day of an Indian festival, Diwali. Most of the Indians celebrated this news as a Diwali gift that marks India’s revenge on the Britishers, as a revenge of an erstwhile colonized country on what once was the Empire. Some are, of course, critical of Rishi Sunak and of the support that he, in particular, is receiving from the Hindu right wing. They have also been accused of double standards as they label Sonia Gandhi as a foreigner in India and take pride in a ‘foreigner’s’ becoming the Prime Minister of the UK. Questions have been raised about Rishi Sunak’s identity as well. Whereas some have pointed out that he should be considered a British citizen, some have dug out the fact that his grandfather was born in a place in undivided India which now is a part of Pakistan and claimed that in no way he is an Indian. Some have also focused on his wealth (he is even richer than King Charles III) and ‘elite’ upbringing (with the background of Oxford and Stanford universities) and marriage (his wife Akshata Murty is the daughter of the billionaire founder of Indian tech giant Infosys) arguing that he could never be the representative of the poor and the needy. In between these two extremes, where should sensible, progressive and liberal Indians stand? Should they give three cheers for Rishi Sunak?