Sunil Adam

Rahul Gandhi did not wear a Burberry T-shirt when he came to an event in Silicon Valley on Tuesday, but he talked a lot about it. He was instead wearing his customary white kurta, a black sleeveless waistcoat and loose-fit white trousers. An impressive crowd — impressive because it was a working-day afternoon — of nearly 300 Indian Americans enthusiastically greeted him at a discussion hosted by The Center for South Asian Studies at UC Santa Cruz, on the first leg of his U.S. tour.