{"id":994089,"date":"2026-02-20T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994089"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:30:24","slug":"15-of-my-cousins-came-here-on-h-1b-indian-origin-ceo-shuts-down-troll-says-his-family-paid-millions-in-taxes-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/15-of-my-cousins-came-here-on-h-1b-indian-origin-ceo-shuts-down-troll-says-his-family-paid-millions-in-taxes-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;15 of my cousins came here on H-1B&#8217;: Indian-origin CEO shuts down troll, says his family paid millions in taxes in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As anti-Indian and anti-H-1B social media handles continue their hate campaign sharing screenshots from Indian groups on social media, payment app CEO Nitish Kannan said 15 of his cousins came to the US on H-1B visas and all of them paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes. The comment came in response to a Telugu-shaming post where a Texan called out Telugus for defrauding their way to the US.<\/p>\n<p>A desi looking to buy a residential property ranging between $1 million and $2 million was the source of the argument. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anti-Indian and anti-H-1B social media handles continue their hate campaign sharing screenshots from Indian groups on social media, payment app CEO Nitish Kannan said 15 of his cousins came to the US on H-1B visas and all of them paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes. The comment came in response to a Telugu-shaming post where a Texan called out Telugus for defrauding their way to the US. A desi looking to buy a residential property ranging between $1 million and $2 million was the source of the argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}