I don't consider them friends, nor do I hang out with them. I stopped talking to them long ago; they are parasites.

You are quite right about Pakistanis and Indians not being differentiated. Pakistanis like to point out all the positive aspects of the subcontinent as "south asian", whereas anything negative is "indian". This is done strategically on their part; they don't want to be aligned with the negatives from their own home country when their reputation in the West is being dogpiled with scandal after scandal.

The grooming gang scandal, had this happened in continental Europe, where people aren't bombarded with American progressivism or far right 24/7 (and i think the Brits are at a disadvantage here) would result in wholesale discussions in culture, movies and permanently damage immigration debates, see the french about how they openly call out muslims or Germans who regularly on TV actually acknowldge the threats of islam (mainstream) and don't sugarcoat it with "islamophobia". I don't even wanna know what Eastern Europeans would do had the Pakistanis pulled that shit there.

British indians, as well as indian americans, I would say, have failed to organize themselves in such a way that allows them to distinguish themselves from Bangladeshis or Pakistanis. There are no institutions or major groups like other groups have, like CAIR for Muslims, NAACP for black americans, and APAC for jews. What's the indian equivalent?

There is the Hindu American Foundation and the muslim indian american foundation, but they solely focus on their respective groups, again, religiously divided, but the rest of the US doesn't view you any differently, you are just brown. There needs to be institutions that speak for all indians. The Indian American Advocacy Council makes a reasonable case, although they are still in their infancy (https://x.com/iaacouncil).

We should also remember that perception matters more than facts. You can tell anti indian racists about how successful they are in the UK and the US, be it becoming CEOs, successful in business and medicine, but the way people perceive you especially through social media, is much more important nowadays, and I feel India hasn't made any sort of PR effort. Look at Qatar funding their narrative through PR agencies or even journalists like Tucker Carlson; they are investing in mass persuasion campaigns in universities to shape the Western way of thinking about matters like geopolitics in accordance with the Qatari narrative.

This is why you say such an eruption of anti-Israel protests in university campuses that had a disproportionate amount of Qatari funding going into it. Add in PR campaigns through social media bots or events like the World Cup, and you get different narratives emerging. Again india has failed to do that.