India, Jan. 28 -- Elon Musk has responded with characteristic bluntness to accusations of racism levelled against him by Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla. After Khosla suggested that Musk's current political trajectory is rooted in a desire for a "white America," Musk retaliated by attacking Khosla's character and controversy over public beach access. To counter the narrative of racial bias, Musk highlighted his personal life, mentioning his partner Shivon Zilis' Indian roots and revealing that his eldest son with her was named after the Nobel Prize-winning Indian-american astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

It all started with a 2025 tweet by Musk where he posted, "White people are a rapidly diminishing minority of global...