when prime minister narendra modi makes his inimitable and by now familiar entry into an indoor arena for the civic reception in malaysia on november 22nd this year all similarities will end there for the 14000 strong crowd waiting to lap up his every utterance would be anything but just nri khalsa diwan malaysia and malaysian national sikhs movement gerasikh representing sikhs with linkages as way back in history as the world war ii sindhis who fled the partition massacre from sindh and made malaysia their home dawoodi bohras with roots in gujarat malaysian hindu sangam representing the majority of tamils the gujaratis from malacca malaysian malayalee association amma and many more comprise the most diverse and historically rich community abroad listening to pm modis speech malaysia has the second largest number of pios at more than 2 million next only to the us ravindran devagunam director at pemandu performance management and delivery unit prime ministers department malaysia says never before would the indian prime minister will have witnessed a diaspora with antecedents so deeply entrenched in history and culturally too the malaysian indian group is most heterogenous though as a country malaysia has beautifully preserved its ethnicity besides a handful of expat indiansbased associations like the kelab bharat kuala lumpur maharashtra mandal and few others majority are threegeneration old indians growing up in malaysia and so each of the 90 associations participating in the malaysia welcomes modi programme have come together to know the significance of what it means to be an indian in the newage india that modi is propagating to the world in contrast to the religious intolerance debate that has spouted in the indian intelligentsia the common indian here attached to one association or the other is excited so on one hand if there is kimma congress of indian muslims of malaysia as a partner in the civic reception there is hindu sevai sangam and malaysia hindu sangam too dato nabhesh khanna general secretary overseas friends of bjp malaysia the organizers of the event says we have to keep the sensitivities of each of the groups in mind and hence the communication around the event too was done accordingly it was not an easy task to reflect this diversity one of the most cohesive themes of malaysian culture the event will showcase the various art forms from india but uniquely none of the talent is from india malaysia has a very rich talent in classical dance forms like for example dato ramli in odissi who has won the sangeet natak academy award and groups like asarwa the temple of fine arts etc this is where again malaysia scores in the cultural vibrancy a new political vibrancy is on display too with indiaasean summit and the east asai summit to be held here from nov 18 onwards until 22nd and the most powerful leaders like obama and putin attending pm modi has his share of significance too malaysian prime minister dato sri najib abdul razak has