Indians Take Over the World - Fiction by Amrevis

Circa 2076! There are Indians everywhere. In every country around the world Indians have taken over the government and all the major businesses. About six decades ago humanity was struck with a mysterious virus called Spermophobe XC-12#139D that had devastating effect in the testicular region of the males and in the fallopian tube region of the females. Men infected with this virus became incapable of producing sperms, while females became incapable ovulating. While they could still have sex, they were no longer fertile and hence could not reproduce. This was the greatest threat that humanity had ever faced. Deprived of their power to reproduce the human species could die out and fade into the mists of time! Scientists of that era battled furiously to neutralize the emasculating effects of this mysterious virus. It took them decades to come up with a cure. By then it was already too late for many cultures that started seeing severe decline in their populations due to lack of newly born babies.

But there was one culture that was spared the ravaging effects of the virus. The Indian culture! By some quirk of genetics the residents of the landmass known as India turned out to be immune to the mysterious Spermophobe XC-12#139D. Lo and behold, suddenly every new baby being born on earth was an Indian baby. While the population of the Europeans, Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Afghans, Australians, etc, plummeted rapidly, the population of Indians went up and up. This apparent immunity of the Indians to the Spermophobe XC-12#139D virus led to lots of heart burn amongst people of other cultures. The non-Indians of the world started suspecting that the virus that had robbed them of their fertility was an Indian conspiracy to take over the world. It was a natural concomitant of things that demagogues should feed on this popular wave of suspicion and try to arouse their populations into enacting violence against Indians. Anti-Indian riots erupted in every part of the world, in every part except India.

Thousands of Indian homes and businesses were targeted in places like New York, Shanghai, Moscow, London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, etc. There were sporadic instances of Indians being beat up in full view of the public. Within days of Spermophobe XC-12#139D being discovered, the social atmosphere in every country other than India became so utterly anti-Indian that the only place in the world where an Indian could feel safe was India. The Indian Diaspora from every part of the world started fleeing back to their motherland. But even in India they could not feel completely safe, as leaders of every nation affected by Spermophobe XC-12#139D started contemplating a devastating military strike on India, to force the Indian government to reveal the cure for the virus. The Indian government of the day pleaded to political leaders everywhere that they did not unleash the virus and certainly they did not possess its cure. But no one would believe them. The United States passed a resolution that Indians should reveal what they know about Spermophobe XC-12#139D or their nation could be nuked out of existence.

Just when a war that could see every nation in the world ganging together to destroy India seemed imminent, some scientists working in a US based medical research center came up with a mind-boggling discovery. Their research revealed that people of Indian origin were slightly different from rest of the human race by virtue of the fact that they had in their DNA an extra gene, which the scientific community quickly named as the Indianosa gene. This new gene had been a vestigial gene and that is why it had gone unnoticed so far. Only when the body became infected with the Spermophobe XC-12#139D virus, the Indianosa gene turned effective and worked towards neutralizing the effects of the virus in the body. But how did the Indians get this extra gene in their DNA? The scientists had no answer to that conundrum. Nor did any one else. It was suggested that because a typical Indian diet consisted of lots of turmeric and garlic, those two items could have had a role to play in development of the Indianosa gene in Indians. In dearth of any other explanation this theory was taken as plausible.

The discovery of the Indianosa gene in the Indian population of the world averted the war, as it proved beyond doubt that India had nothing to do with the release of the Spermophobe XC-12#139D virus that had turned billions of people around the world infertile. And in face of the scientific explanation to the 'apparent' Indian immunity to the virus, the wave of anti-Indian riots in different parts of the world lost their steam. But the general crisis that the world faced was far from over. In US where thousands of babies used to be born every day, no new birth had been reported since the outbreak of Spermophobe XC-12#139D virus. Same was the case of every nation in the world except India. With a vast majority in the world rendered infertile there was a real danger of human population on earth relapsing into a fatal tailspin. The only way out was that the Indians, unaffected by the virus, should vastly increase their birth rate in order to make up for the deficit caused by zero birth rate of other cultures.

Probably for the first time in history the survival of humanity depended on procreative powers of Indians, who in the end proved themselves quite up to the task. Within a period of a couple of years the birthrate in India went up by more than 1000% even as the population in rest of the world declined to zero. There was certain zeal in the way the Indians went about adding to their population, after all now they were reproducing not just for themselves but for the whole world. The same countries, whose populations had once imposed strict visa norms with regards to Indians trying to enter their borders, were now offering unheard of incentives to Indian immigrants. And Indians giving in to their wanderlust did not fail to take the bait. Soon there were Indians flying off to every part of the world, their numbers helping shore up the deficit in the population of their host country.

Another two decades passed. Scientists still could not come up with a cure for the mysterious Spermophobe XC-12#139D virus. Every child born for the last two decades was an Indian, leading to fear amongst many nations that the rising number of Indians in the world could swamp their culture and take over the politics of their nation. But despite the fear of cultural and political takeover, no nation in the word could dare to ask its Indians to leave the country. Every nation was racked by the worry that they would need a fresh crop of youngsters to run the nation once the existing labor got too old to work. And Indians were the only youngsters that were available. In another two decades the inevitable happened, and much of the younger work force everywhere in the world was of Indian origin. There were Indians taking care of manufacturing in China, participating in sports in Russia, running electronics firms in Japan, working as climate scientists in Australia, running the software industry in US, flying into the space in space shuttles. Every conceivable activity requiring young blood, had to have Indians at the helm.

The antidote to Spermophobe XC-12#139D virus was finally discovered in 2075, six decades after the first outbreak had happened. As a quirk of fate it was a pair of Indian scientists, researching in a state of the art laboratory in Bangalore, who came up with an antidote to the virus. Though that was not surprising in a world where most of the scientists were Indians. But by then it was too late for the indigenous populations of most nations to recover, as Indians with their prolific birthrate had already swamped every country in the world. Out of 6 billion of earth's population, 4.5 billion were Indians. And with such high numbers, it was natural that the political agenda of the world started being dictated by the Indian whims and fancies. The US presidential elections in 2076 saw Kalu Prasad Yadav, an Indian immigrant to US from Bihar in India becoming elected as the President of US. There was lots of breast beating amongst the white minority in US at an Indian becoming president, but with Indians being the dominant majority in US, a president from Indian community was inevitable.

An Indian bagging the top job was not a phenomenon confined only to US. It was happening everywhere in the world. The governments around the world kept falling like dominos under the Indian onslaught. Europe was already an Indian bastion, with candidates of Indian origin sweeping into victory in election after election. Probably for the first time in history Middle East was overwhelmingly of Indian origin. And the Indians in the Middle East lost no time in ushering in a political clime of peace and democracy to this troubled land. The old dictators were swept aside by the surging tide of Indians, leading to a democratically elected governments controlled by the Indian Diaspora. Africa lightened up, with brown Indians outnumbering black Africans. In Australia it was the same story. An Indian from Punjab won the Australian elections with record margin and became the president of this continent nation.

In UK the government of the day tried to prevent Indians from assuming power by passing the legislation that denied Indians the right to vote. The result was a wave of protest by the Indian majority in the country. Meetings were disturbed, Ministers were mobbed, policemen were bitten, and ordinary prison fare rejected, and on a New Years Eve Indian women bound themselves onto lampposts across the city of London, and chanted slogans in Hindi, so that the customary New Year Eve's revelry had to be abandoned. The white government of this island nation was forced to relent, resulting in the famous 10 Downing Street getting its first Indian inhabitant.

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