[2] Despite living at the White House with the First Family, India was overshadowed in the media by the Bushes' higher-profile Scottish terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley.

[1] The dogs received significantly more media attention from the White House press corps during the Bush presidency.

[2] India made an appearance, again as "Willie", in the March 2008 Architectural Digest in the East Sitting Hall of the White House.

In July 2004, demonstrators in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala denounced the cat's name as an insult to the nation of India, and burned an effigy of President Bush in protest.

[2][6] The Bushes did not change the cat's name in response to the demonstrations,[2] as their cat had been named after the baseball player Rubén Sierra, who was nicknamed "El Indio" during his time with the Texas Rangers when Bush owned the team.