New research points to a sharp rise in online abuse and hate incidents targeting South Asian communities, amid growing immigration tensions in the United States A sharp rise in anti-South Asian hate in the United States is raising concern among community organisations, with Indians and other South Asian groups increasingly facing racist abuse both online and in public. A September 2026 report by Stop AAPI Hate found that the use of anti-South Asian slurs in online spaces rose by 109 per cent between January 2023 and December 2025. The organisation said South Asians accounted for 71 per cent of anti-Asian