Fuck him and all but this isn't shocking. I have never met a south asian (indian and co) that was genuinely christian. I've met a lot of oriental asians, especially koreans for some reason, who are true christians that walk the walk and seem to genuinely believe but i've never met an indian who did.
May I introduce you to the Saint Thomas Christians of the Malabar Coast (now Kerala, India)?
TLDR on their origins: their internal narrative traces them all the way back to the voyages of Saint Thomas the Apostle. This is a plausible origin story on its surface because the Romans
did have long-spanning trade routes along the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Not to mention that Jewish communities existed in the Malabar Coast that were roughly contemporary with Saint Thomas's legendary voyages. Secular scholarship places them closer to the 4th and 5th centuries AD, following multiple waves of evangelism. One wave went south from Edessa to the Malabar Coast, the other went north through the Iranian Plateau into the Indus River Valley.
In the 1500s, the Portuguese set foot in the Malabar Coast and sought to bring all the Saint Thomas Christians under the fold of the Catholic Church. Then the British showed up not too long after bringing Anglicanism with them, and eventually the 19th and 20th centuries bringing Protestant missionaries more generally. The Saint Thomas Christians are all Malayalam-speakers, and today, the Saint Thomas Christians are scattered among multiple groups:
* Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (descended from the Church of the East): they use the East Syriac Rite
* Jacobite/Malankara Orthodox Church (both in schism with one another, and they pledge fealty to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch in Baghdad): they use the West Syriac Rite
* Mar Thoma Syrian Church: they're a rare "Oriental Protestant" group who retain the West Syriac liturgy but adopted Anglican trappings (i.e. 66 book bible, communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury)
* Scattered Pentecostal and evangelical Protestants, Latin Rite Catholics, and garden-variety Anglicans
Protip to identify a Saint Thomas Christian: if you see a Desi guy with a name like "Gregorios" or "Bartholomew" or "Joshua" or "Adam," they're more than likely a Saint Thomas Christian.
