For the first time, members of the Indian diaspora in the United States will hoist the Indian flag in New York’s famous Times Square on August 15 to mark the country’s 74th Independence Day. But this grand event has once again cast the spotlight on a widening rift between Indian-Americans, many of whom support the nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and “progressives” unhappy at policies which marginalise minorities and go against the secular constitution. “The flag…