According to a memoir, JD Vance wrote for Hillbilly Elegy, he felt out of place, when he was invited by the law firm Gibson Dunn to a dinner at a fancy restaurant as part of his interview when he was in his second year of the Yale Law School. Growing up in a small Ohio town, he wasn’t used to fancy restaurants. “Why do I need three spoons? Why were there multiple butter knives?” he wondered. He needed help. So JD Vance from the cover of a bathroom called that one person who could get him through it, the person he called his “spirit guide” – his girlfriend at the time, Usha Chilukuri.
“What do I do with all these damned forks?” he asked Usha when she picked up. “I don’t want to make a fool of myself.” Usha explained, “Go from the outside to inside, and don’t use the same utensil for separate dishes. Oh, and use the fat spoon for soup”, according to an article in The Preamble magazine, February 25, 2025.
According to that article, “It was not the last time JD would turn to Usha for help. The couple, who got together in law school and later married, has been inseparable ever since. He relies on her counsel”. Hopefully, they have had good discussions before his latest blurbs related to feeling that he hopes she will see his way to Gospels of Christianity.
According to a report in the New York Times (October 31, 2025), the Vice President JD Vance said, “Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church?” he said during an event at the University of Mississippi, in response to a question from the audience. “Yeah, I honestly do wish that because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way”.
He seems to continue his confusion in life, being raised in family with different last names, atheist to catholic conversion, meat eater to vegetarian cook and the names of his children being influenced by Indian origin in Ewan (breathing in, when used as Evaan), Vivek (discerner), and Mirabel (meaning ocean, depth, or boundless) in Sanskrit.
He could have easily consulted his wife Usha Vance who could easily tell him his last name means hereditary lineage of Vansh, and he could dip a bit deeper to the books that propose the theory that Jesus traveled to India do so based on interpretations of ancient manuscripts, oral traditions and the “lost years” in the biblical narrative. None of these books ever written by Indians let alone Hindus. However, India is an origin or mother of the humanity based on any and all the historical, philosophical, scientific, business and cultural concepts as well practices from Socrates, Pythagoras, Roman empire, Alexander the so called great, Columbus, Vasco de Gama and all others who can still not forget India.
These books rely on historical, textual and anecdotal evidence, the “Jesus in India” theory. The consensus among biblical scholars is that there is no historical or scientific evidence that Jesus traveled to India.
The legend of the Rozabal Shrine in Srinagar, Kashmir, claims that Jesus of Nazareth (Isa in Islam) survived crucifixion with his yoga techniques and journeyed east to Kashmir, where he lived as a prophet named Yuz Asaf. Proponents point to physical evidence, such as carved footprints with alleged crucifixion wounds and cite local traditions from as early as 1747 that mention a foreign prophet buried at the site. The theory gained prominence in 1899 when Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, asserted the shrine as Jesus’s tomb.
However, local Sunni Muslim tradition holds that the tomb actually belongs to Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin, a saint from the 15th century and possibly an ancient sage Yuz Asaf, but rejects any link to Jesus. Mainstream historians consider the story a myth without historical basis, often identifying Yuz Asaf with a Bodhisattva figure from other legends. Due to controversy, the shrine is frequently closed to visitors and the theory remains a fringe belief outside Christian and Islamic orthodoxy.
Over the past century, numerous authors have examined this controversial theory in various languages. Although most scholars regard the theory as a modern forgery, it has nonetheless attracted considerable popular interest and generated a substantial body of literature.
Authors of a dozen books and other contributors have explored this topic, either by advancing new interpretations, sharing investigative experiences or critically assessing the assertions found in these foundational works. The possibility exists primarily India being the cradle of human civilization from the very beginning.
Interestingly, a human geographic project of National Geographic Society (see the map below) and other population genetics studies (Oppenheimer, S. (2012) Out-of-Africa, the peopling of continents and islands: Tracing uniparental gene trees across the map. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences 367(1590):770-784) have shown that human population initially migrated from Africa to the Indian Subcontinent and then everywhere else from that route, making India as the main source of human migration some 60,000 years ago, which may in fact have cultural consequences.
It will be fascinating to explore this line of novel narrative that combines cosmology and genetics in its support. Further analysis of linguistics, art, music, rituals and philosophical connections need to be explored and examined. For example, the word ‘Adam’ may have been derived from Adi Manu, or progenitor Manu.
From all other accounts, JD Vance, including his friendship and marriage with Usha Chilukuri, appears to be a nice gentleman. It may be the compulsion of politics that is responsible for his erratic behavior. The power and more importantly the desire to power makes even gods corrupt. He may like to read an article I wrote a couple of years ago on Jesus Christ, ‘Jesus’ the ‘Ishā’ and ‘Christ’ the ‘Kshatriya’,
To link Christ to Kshatriya one needs to understand the meaning of the word. The word, kshatra, comes of ksha = to destroy, and tra = oppressed. A kshatriya unshakingly will stay the ground, as was also demonstrated by Jesus Christ, thus making him naturally a kshatriya worthy of support by all. This revelation about Jesus Christ may sound far fetched but in reality, is very close to his behavior and determination. It may be worthwhile for Christians to follow the Jesus characteristics, rather than trying to convert people to their camp.
Hope JD Vance and Usha Vance enlighten the people who are blinded by their religious bigotry to take the world to darkness. We the Americans from India, the only country that has been adorned with the name of an entire ocean, as Indian Ocean, and the only nation that calls itself as Mother India or Bharatmata has to enlighten the world. JD Vance’s sincere understanding of India and his wife’s culture may clear much confusion of his life and can help the world.
