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The Brown-White; Indian-American Syndrome – #AskBobby

By vinodnarayan on July 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

We all know (including Bobby Jindal) that there is a problem. But the difference is he thinks it is his Indian origin where as we all know it is him trying to hide it.

While I think that Bobby Jindal has all right to not term himself as an ‘Indian American’ if he wishes to, that is such a bad move as a politician in a nation that is so diverse.

His #askbobby hashtag is a disaster that will go on. I have been following some of them and did not see even one question that looks like it was one the hashtag was intended for. This is one of the biggest social media fiascos that can happen. I am just happy that I don’t know the person who ran that campaign. Not that if the hashtag was not there he would have made it. At least he and his campaign could have saved some embarrassment.

The sad part is some of the questions really border on racism, but I guess it should not matter to Bobby because he does not like to be termed as ‘Indian American’ and we all know how he made his portrait look….. 🙂 And here are some really hilarious tweets (or questions) people are asking Bobby 🙂

What’s your favorite Indian dish? And would Jesus win a fight with Vishnu?
How have your policies helped low-income women gain access to basic reproductive care? Oh, wait…
I look at your portrait and get that you identify as White. But after looking at your record, why do you identify as “electable”?
When are widely disliked famous people going to learn how Twitter works?!?
Barack Hussein Obama ran for the Presidency under his real full name. not “Barry”. You ain’t Bobby your name is Piyush. Own it.
Louisiana ranks 44th in the US for overall public education performance with a D+ grade. Whose fault is this & why is it Obama’s?
Who on your team thought a Twitter Q&A wouldn’t open your awful ideas to mockery, and when will you fire them?
If gays get married and no conservatives are around to throw a fit, does it still violate their religious freedom?
How does it feel to erase every part of your heritage and still not be able to get a seat at the table?
Do you pretend to hate spicy food in front of your white friends?
Gov. Jindal: If elected President, how will you exorcise basic human rites?
If a Rhodes scholar panders to Christian anti-science sentiments & no one outside Louisiana listens, does he make a sound?
Louisiana is #1 supplier of shellfish in USA. Based on Leviticus 11:12, what’s ur plan for legal discrimination? Will u ban it?
Do you plan to put America into a hole like you did with Louisiana?
What’s it like being a Rhodes scholar who won’t stand up for higher LA public school standards
Have you figured out who started the internet prank that you’re running for President?
What is the difference between you and a toilet?
Many have responded to the news of your candidacy with laughter. Thoughts?

I don’t think these tags had anything to do with his Indian American comment, seems like people just waiting for something to come and he made it so easy with his twitter #tag

For me I was more amused by his constant struggle to brand himself as an American instead of an Indian American and I did not tweet much on that and just did one… but I had a few in stock which I will put here….

I am so sad to see an ‘Indian American’ become a laughing stock; Can I cry and will you join?
Did you know that Curry is also the name for a ‘dish with gravy’ in India and not an NBA player?
How did you manage to tan from white to brown in 44 years?
I am an Indian and you are an American; Together we are still Indian American right? Wrong?
Can the color Brown be included in a Rainbow?
What did you say was wrong with the name Piyush?
It is said even in india people have started calling themselves Americans; what are your thoughts?

You can go on and on with this but what I really wanted to say is that Mr. Bobby Jindal might be thinking I know you might be wondering who these ‘Indian Americans’ are and you can check on wikipedia and here are the list of some famous Indian Americans as per the wiki… It has your name too but I have struck it here so you don’t get offended

Academics

Geeta Menon, Dean of the Undergraduate College at New York University Stern School of Business
Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College
Jamshed Bharucha, President of Cooper Union
Vijay K. Dhir, Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Dinesh D’Souza, President of The King’s College
Dipak C. Jain, Dean of INSEAD and former Dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Pramod P. Khargonekar, Dean of College of Engineering at University of Florida
Renu Khator, Chancellor of the University of Houston System and President of the University of Houston
Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego
Vijay Kumar, Associate Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Pennsylvania
Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School
Beheruz Sethna, President of the University of West Georgia
Dr. Paul Shrivastava, Distinguished Professor and Director, David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Concordia University
Molly Easo Smith, President of Manhattanville College
Anjli Jain, Executive Director of CampusEAI Consortium
Subra Suresh, President of Carnegie Mellon University
Satish K. Tripathi, President of University at Buffalo
Kumble R. Subbaswamy, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amhers

Mathematicians

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar’s conjecture of finite group theory
Raghu Raj Bahadur, statistician
Manjul Bhargava, is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University
Harish-Chandra, mathematician
Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician specializing in number theory
Narendra Karmarkar, mathematician, inventor of Karmarkar algorithm
Chandrashekhar Khare, professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles
G. S. Maddala, mathematician and economist best known for his work in the field of econometrics
Anil Nerode, mathematician, proved the Myhill-Nerode Theorem
K. C. Sreedharan Pillai, mathematician
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, mathematician
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, NYU mathematician who specialised in probability, winner of the Abel Prize and Steele Prize.
Akshay Venkatesh, mathematician.

Scholars

Sugata Bose,professor of History in the Harvard University
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, Professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
C. R. Rao
Anant Agarwal, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT
Ramesh Agarwal, William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Pulickel M. Ajayan, is a professor of Material Science at Rice University
Salman Akhtar, Professor at the Jefferson Medical College
Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations at University of Chicago
Akhil Amar, Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Vikram Amar, Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law
Abhay Ashtekar, Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University
Satya N. Atluri, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at University of California, Irvine
P.S. Ayyaswamy, Professor of Dynamical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
Homi K. Bhabha, Professor at Harvard University
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, Professor of economics at Columbia University.
Alok Bhargava, Professor of Economics at University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Sugata Bose, Professor of History Harvard University
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, Professor of microbiology at University of Illinois at Chicago
K. Mani Chandy, Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology
V. V. Chari, Professor of economics at the University of Minnesota
Raj Chetty, Professor of economics at Harvard University
Naresh Dalal, Dirac Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University
Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University
Ashok Das, Professor of Physics at University of Rochester
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit, Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Ashok Gadgil, Professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
Rajit Gadh, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Bhargav Gajjar: (Gujarati:ભાગૅવ ગજજર) Aerospace robotics scientist, educator, entrepreneur from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and founder of bioinspired robotics company Vishwa Robotics
Anirvan Ghosh, Professor at the University of California, San Diego
Kausalya Hart, scholar of Tamil language at UC Berkeley
Narayan Hosmane, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Illinois University
Ravi Jagannathan, Professor at the Kellogg School of Management
Rakesh Jain, Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School
Anil K. Jain (computer scientist, born 1948), Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University
Anil K. Jain (electrical engineer, born 1946), Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Jainendra K. Jain, Professor of Physics Pennsylvania State University
John Jain, Reproductive endocrinologist at Lyan Institute of Fertility Research
Piyare Jain, Professor Emeritus at University at Buffalo
Raj Jain, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science
Sachin H. Jain, American physician and health policy analyst at Harvard Medical School
S. Lochlann Jain, Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University
Aravind Joshi, Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Nazir Jairazbhoy, Professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at University of California at Los Angeles.
Thomas Kailath, Professor of Engineering at Stanford University
Avinash Kak, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware
Ravindra Khattree, Professor of statistics at Oakland University
Shrinivas Kulkarni, Professor of astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech.
Jagadeesh Moodera, is an American physicist of Indian origin and is a senior research scientist at MIT’s Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
Bharati Mukherjee ,author, professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley
C. M. Naim, scholar of Urdu language and literature at University of Chicago
Jaishree Odin, Professor of post-modern literary theorist at the University of Hawaii
Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics at Columbia University
Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Shwetak Patel, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at University of Washington
C.K. Prahalad, Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan
Vijay Prashad, Professor of International Studies at Trinity College
Ishwar K. Puri, N. Waldo Harrison Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech
V.S. Ramachandran Professor with the Psychology and Neurosciences University of California, San Diego
Debraj Ray, Silver Professor of Economics, New York University
C. R. Rao, Professor at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo
K. R. Rao, Professor at University of Texas at Arlington
J. N. Reddy, Professor and holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
Subir Sachdev Professor of Physics Harvard University
Deepak Sarma, Professor of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University
Krishna Saraswat, Professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University
Ricky J. Sethi, Professor of Computer Science at Fitchburg State University and Director of Research at The Madsci Network
Amit Sheth, computer scientist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio
Jagdish Sheth, Professor of Marketing at Goizueta Business School of Emory University
Jagdish Shukla, Professor at George Mason University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor at Columbia University
Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History and scholar at UCLA
Madhu Sudan, Professor of Computer Science at MIT
Mriganka Sur, Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Vijay Vazirani, Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Umesh Vazirani, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Medha Yodh, scholar of classical Indian dance at UCLA

Activists/Civil Rights

Bhagat Singh Thind – Civil Rights figure
Thomas Abraham, Founder President, Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) as well as the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA)
Maya Ajmera, Founder of The Global Fund for Children and author of more than 20 books for children
Mahzarin Banaji, best known for a series of studies around exploring gender and racial bias
Bhairavi Desai, founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York
Kartar Dhillon, Ghadar Party, labor, and civil rights activist
Mallika Dutt, currently the Executive Director of Breakthrough (human rights)
Vijaya Lakshmi Emani (1958-2009), social activist
Arun Manilal Gandhi, fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, lawyer, who is defending Guantanamo prisoners.
Abraham George, Philanthropist Humanitarian, Founder of The George Foundation (TGF)
Maya Harris, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of Kamala Harris.
Girindra Mukerji, led one of the first Indian-American student protests against colonialism in 1908
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women.
Amrit Singh, a staff attorney at the ACLU.
Bhagat Singh Thind, civil rights figure, lecturer, author
Urvashi Vaid, gay rights activist
Inder Singh, Chairman, Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)

Arts, entertainment, performance

Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014.
Rohit Gupta – Film Director.
Ashok Amritraj, Hollywood producer
Salma Arastu, Artist
Rina Banerjee, Artist
Prashant Bhargava, Director
Jay Chandrasekhar, Director, Actor, Comedian, and Writer
Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014
San Banarje,independent film maker
Rohit Gupta, Film Director, Producer
Reef Karim, Actor, director, writer, and producer
Mehul Shah, Actor, director, writer, and producer
Neeraj Khemlani, a producer at the CBS News 60 Minutes
Pooja Kumar, Model
Prosenjit Kundu, dancer and choreographer
Adam Bhala Lough, Director, Screenwriter
Benny Mathews, Film and Music Video Director
Faris McReynolds, Painter and Musician
Govindini Murty, Co-founder of Liberty film festival
Mira Nair, Director and Producer
Sunil Nayar, TV Writer and Producer, a Producer of CSI: Miami
Yatin Patel, Photographer & Artist
Sarayu Rao, Actor and director
Ajay Sahgal, Director, Screenwriter and Producer
Harish Saluja, Filmmaker
Stephanie Sengupta, Producer and Writer
Naren Shankar, TV Writer, Producer and Director, an Executive Producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Adi Shankar, Producer and Actor
M. Night Shyamalan, Director, filmmaker
Param Gill, Director, Screenwriter and Producer
Tarsem Singh, Director
Manick Sorcar, Animator, Artist, and Producer
Babu Subramaniam, Director
Tina Sugandh, Entertainer
Julie Titus, Model, Contestant of America’s Next Top Model
Tirlok Malik, Filmmaker and actor

Actors and actresses

Mindy Kaling
Kal Penn
Omi Vaidya
Thomas Tevana, Actor
Kalpana Pandit, Actress
Danny Pudi, Actor
Noureen DeWulf, Actress
Sendhil Ramamurthy, Actor
Navi Rawat, Actress
Anjul Nigam, Actor
Shishir Kurup, Actor
Sheetal Sheth, Actress
Tanveer K. Atwal, Actress
Ravi Kapoor, Actor
Deep Katdare, Actor
Waris Ahluwalia, Actor
Namrata Singh Gujral, Actress
Sonal Shah, Actress
Sunkrish Bala, Actor
Purva Bedi, Actress
Devika Parikh, Actress
Janina Gavankar, Actress
Sakina Jaffrey, Actress
Serena Varghese, Voice Actress
Firdous Bamji, Actor
Nivedita Kulkarni, Actress
Samrat Chakrabarti, Actor
Rory Cochrane, Actor
Sabu Dastagir, Actor
Aasif Mandvi, Actor
Ajay Mehta, TV Actor
Shelly Malil, Film and TV Actor
Ajay Naidu, Actor
Maulik Pancholy, Actor
Kal Penn, Actor
Tiya Sircar,Actress
Manish Dayal, Actor
Deep Katdare, Actor
Raja Fenske, Actor
Omi Vaidya, Actor
Dileep Rao, Actor
Mindy Kaling, Actress
Sujata Day, Actress
Aziz Ansari, Actor
Erick Avari, Actor
Karan Brar, Film and TV Actor
Summer Bishil, Actress
Gabrielle Anwar, actor
Tirlok Malik, actor

Comedians

Aziz Ansari, Comedian
Arj Barker, Comedian
Hari Kondabolu, Comedian
Adam Mamawala, Comedian
Dan Nainan, Comedian
Rajiv Satyal, Comedian
Anish Shah, Comedian
Azhar Usman, Comedian
Paul Varghese, Comedian from Dallas, Texas appeared on Last Comic Standing

Culinary arts

Padma Lakshmi
H. Jay Dinshah, founded the American Vegan Society
Vikas Khanna, Michelin Starred Chef, Restaurateur, Author, Filmmaker, and TV Host
Rajat Parr, sommelier
Jehangir Mehta, Celebrity Chef, Restaurateur, Author
Raghavan Iyer, Chef, Author, Culinary Educator

Fashion designers

Naeem Khan
Vashtie Kola
Bibhu Mohapatra
Christine Philip
Rachel Roy

Models

Anchal Joseph, contestant of America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 7.
Padma Lakshmi, Model, Top Chef Host

Media

Fareed Zakaria – At the Mandalay Bay Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada.
Fareed Zakaria, columnist for Time Magazine and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN
Zain Verjee, CNN anchor
Shihab Rattansi, CNN International Anchor
Aneesh Raman, former CNN Middle East correspondent
Ash-har Quraishi, Correspondent, WTTWChicago, former KCTV Chief Investigative Reporter, CNN former Islamabad Bureau Chief
Ali Velshi, business news anchor for CNN
Vinita Nair, current anchor of World News Now and America This Morning on ABC.
Uma Pemmaraju, senior news anchor for Fox News Channel
Shibani Joshi, reporter for the Fox Business Network
Reena Ninan, Middle East Correspondent for Fox News Channel.
Asha Blake, an Emmy award-winning journalist who works for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.
Hari Sreenivasan, correspondent for CBS News and the PBS NewsHour.
Priya David, correspondent for CBS News.
Sukanya Krishnan, news anchor for CW 11 Morning News on WPIX
Shihab Rattansi, news anchor for Al Jazeera English
Asra Nomani, journalist
Simran Sethi, journalist
Rajeev Srinivasan, political commentator and journalist
Mish Michaels, meteorologist for the WBZ-TV Weather Team.
Deepa Fernandes, host of the WBAI radio program “Wakeup Call”
Deepti Hajela, newswoman for the Associated Press
Deepak Ananthapadmanabha, online journalist
Alpana Singh, television personality
Gopal Raju, pioneer of Indian American ethnic media in the United States.
Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University professor and WABC-TV technology reporter.
Syma Chowdhry, television host, reporter, and producer
Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of National Review magazine
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor for continuous news, The Washington Post, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City (published by Knopf)
Pico Iyer, author and journalist for ”Time magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, and The New York Review of Books
Kevin Negandhi sports anchor for ESPN SportsCenter

Musicians

Zubin Mehta
Kim Thayil, lead guitarist for Grammy Award-winning rock band Soundgarden.
Norah Jones, (one-half Indian), musician, Grammy Award winner, daughter of Ravi Shankar.
Tony Kanal, two-time Grammy Award winner, bass player for No Doubt.
Sameer Bhattacharya, one of two guitarists in the Texas alternative rock band Flyleaf.
Ángel, is of Indian heritage-born American rapper and poet.
Mathai, a finalist on The Voice (U.S. season 2)
Sanjaya Malakar, a finalist on the sixth season of American Idol.
Anoop Desai, a finalist on the eighth season of American Idol.
Sameer Gadhia, lead vocalist in Young the Giant
Zubin Mehta, former conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Zarin Mehta, executive director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Vijay Iyer, jazz musician and Composer.
Karsh Kale, an Indian producer, composer and musician.
Paul Sabu, producer
Sunny Jain, dhol player, drummer, and composer
Falu, singer and songwriter
Bamboo Shoots, dance-rock band
Arun Luthra, jazz musician
Thara Prashad, singer
Ravi Hutheesing, singer-songwriter/guitarist
Vasant Rai, performer of Indian music
Shaheen Sheik, song-writer
Ambi Subramaniam, violinist and composer
Bindu Subramaniam, singer songwriter
Sanjay Mishra, guitarist and composer
Bikram Singh, singer
Jeff Bhasker, producer
Nicki Minaj, (Indo-trinadadian), pop singer & rapper
Das Racist, alternative hip hop group, two of the three members are IndianSavan Kotecha, song-writer

Business Executives

Indra Nooyi – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo.
Abbas Sadriwala : Chairman and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale-based Wireless Logix Group
Abhi Talwalkar : President & CEO, LSI Corporation
Ajay Banga : President and CEO of Mastercard
Ajit Jain : Possible successor to Warren Buffett
Anshu Jain : co-CEO of Deutsche Bank.
Arvind Raghunathan : Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at Deutsche Bank.
Asim Ghosh : President & Chief Executive Officer at Husky Energy.
Dinesh Paliwal : Chairman and CEO, Harman International
Francisco D’Souza : CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions
Nikesh Arora : Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Google Company.
Padmasree Warrior : CTO of Cisco Systems
Prakash Puram : President and CEO of iXmatch
Rajiv Gupta : General Manager of Hewlett Packard
Prith Banerjee, Managing Director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture
Ranji H. Nagaswami : Chief Investment Officer for AllianceBernstein Fund Investors
Ravichandra Saligram : CEO of OfficeMax
Rono Dutta : Former President of United Airlines; Chairman of Air Sahara
Sanjay Jha : CEO of Global Foundries and former CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices
Satya Nadella: CEO of Microsoft
Shantanu Narayen : CEO of Adobe Systems
Sundar Pichai : Senior Vice President of Google Company for Android, Chrome and Google Apps
Bobby Mehta : CEO, Transunion Company.
Victor Menezes: Chairman of Clearing House Association, former Chairman and CEO of Citibank
Vyomesh Joshi : Executive Vice President of Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Company.
Rajeev Suri : CEO of nokia

Literature

Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
Anita Desai, novelist, she has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times, mother of Kiran Desai.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, First successful Indian man of letters in the U.S., Winner of Newbery Medal 1928
Bharati Mukherjee ,author, professor
Amitav Ghosh, Indo-nostalgic writer and winner of Prix Médicis étranger
Shauna Singh Baldwin, novelist, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
Ravi Batra, bestselling author and economist
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author
Anu Garg, author, speaker, and computer engineer
Tulika Mehrotra, author, journalist
Janaki Ram, author
Susham Bedi, author
Thrity Umrigar, writer
S. T. Joshi, literary critic
Indira Viswanathan Peterson, literary critic
Vijay Seshadri, literary critic
Rishi Reddi, author
Ravi Shankar, poet
Parag Khanna, author
Indu Sundaresan, author
Siddharth Katragadda, author, filmmaker, artist
Rajiv Joseph, playwright
Usha Haley, author
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, author
Thrity Umrigar, author of Bombay Time.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poet
Agha Shahid Ali, poet
Vikram Seth, poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children’s writer, biographer and memoirist
Abraham Verghese, noted Doctor and Author; “In My Own Country” and “My Tennis Partner”
Kaavya Viswanathan, novelist
Saumitra Saxena, Hindi poet, Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhana Award winner.

Military

Joe Roche, Iraq war veteran and conservative political commentator
Uday Singh Taunque, first Indian American to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Sudip Bose, an attending emergency medicine physician, educator, entrepreneur, and combat veteran who served as a physician on the front lines in Iraq for nearly 15 months which is one of the longest combat deployments by a physician since World War II
Sunil Desai, a retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel and founder of non profit Girl Rising who has served as an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations [3][4][5]
Sunita Williams, an astronaut (listed below) and former Navy officer. She graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1987 and has logged more than 3000 flight hours in over 300 different aircraft types.

Nobel Prize

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada
E. Yonath, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.
Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine, (1968).
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize for Physics, (1983).
Amartya Sen, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, (1998).
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, (2009).

Elected Officials

Nikki Haley – Governor of South Carolina
~~Bobby Jindal, is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and the Vice Chairman of the Republican Governors Association.~~
Nikki Haley, is the 116th and current Governor of South Carolina.
Mervyn M. Dymally, was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–1979) and in the U.S.

House of Representatives (1981–1993)

Dalip Singh Saund, was the first Asian and Indian American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California.
Kamala Harris, is the 32nd and current Attorney General of California.
Ami Bera, U.S. Representative for California’s 7th congressional district.
Swati Dandekar, Iowa State Senator
Kumar P. Barve, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (majority leader)
Aruna Miller, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Sam Arora, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Upendra J. Chivukula, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
Raj Goyle, member of the Kansas State Representative
Jay Goyal, member of the Ohio State Representative
Satveer Chaudhary, former Minnesota State Senator
Saqib Ali, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Nimi McConigley, former member of the Wyoming State Legislature
Harvinder “Harry” Anand, mayor of Laurel Hollow, New York
Kashmir Gill, mayor of Yuba City, California
Arun Jhaveri, former mayor of Burien, Washington
Bala K. Srinivas, former mayor of Hollywood Park, Texas
John Abraham, former mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey
Harry Sidhu, city councilman of Anaheim, California
Satish Mohan, town supervisor of Amherst, New York
Faz Husain, first native of India to win elected office in Michigan*

Civil Servants

Srikanth Srinivasan, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Rajiv Shah, former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics and current Administrator of USAID.
Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States of America.
Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States of America.
Arun Majumdar, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
Subra Suresh, Director of National Science Foundation
Neal Katyal, is the Solicitor General of the United States.
Islam A. Siddiqui, is Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
Joy Cherian, first Asian head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Gopal Khanna, Chief Information Officer in the state of Minnesota.
Richard Verma, is the Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, at the Department of State
Arif Alikhan, former Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, former Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles, former senior adviser to Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales.
Neel Kashkari, former interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury.
Sonal Shah, member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project advisory board
Farah Pandith, is currently the Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State.
Rashad Hussain, is the U.S. Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Preeta D. Bansal, member and past chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and former Solicitor General of New York.
Anant Raut, Counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee
Rachel Paulose, former United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota.
Kris Kolluri, New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation.
Shekar Narasimhan, Co-chair of the Democratic National Committee Indo-American Council
Raj Mukherji, Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, NJ, and candidate for the New Jersey State Legislature.
Har Dayal, founder of the Ghadar Party.
Huma Abedin, aide to United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Raja Krishnamoorthi, former Illinois Deputy Treasurer for Policy and Programs and former candidate for Illinois Comptroller
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Cathy Bissoon, judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Narayana Kocherlakota, President of Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Sabrina De Sousa, ex-CIA officer, who is suing the US Govt for diplomatic immunity.
Surya Yalamanchili, 2010 US Congressional Candidate
Sabita Singh, first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts history

Religion

Eboo Patel, member of New Faith Advisory Council
Ed Viswanathan, author of Am I A Hindu?
Ramananda Prasad, founder of the International Gita Society
Padmanabh Jaini, scholar of Jainism
Muzammil Siddiqi, Ph.D., Chairman, Fiqh Council of North America
Prem Rawat, also known as Guru Maharaji Ji, head of the Divine Light Mission and later organizations
Sushil Kumarji, Jain Acharya
Ravi Zacharias, Christian evangelist and apologist
Chitrabhanu, Jain Founded the Jain Meditation International Center in Manhattan, New York City

Science and technology

Kalpana Chawla
Sunita Williams
Vinod Dham
Deepak Chopra
Narinder Singh Kapany : Engineer, called the “Father of Fiber Optics”.
Dr. Amitabha Ghosh, only Asian on NASA Mars Pathfinder mission.
Sabeer Bhatia : Co-founder of Hotmail
Vinod Dham : Designed the Intel Pentium Chip Processor (Known as the Father of the “Pentium Chip”)
Avtar Saini : Co-led the development of the Pentium processor Intel. He holds 7 patents related to microprocessor design.
Ajay Bhatt : Co-Inventor of the USB. Chief Client Platform Architect at Intel
Krishna Bharat : Principal Scientist at Google – Famous for creating Google News.
Subrah Iyar: Co-Founder and CEO of Webex Communications
Swapan Chattopadhyay, particle accelerator physicist
Arun Netravali : Scientist. Former President of Bell Labs. Former CTO of Lucent. A pioneer of digital technology including HDTV and MPEG4.
Anil Dash : Blogger and technologist
Amit Goyal : Distinguished Scientist and Distinguished Inventor
Raj Reddy : Founder of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, winner of the Turing Award.
C. Kumar N. Patel : Developed the carbon dioxide laser, used as a cutting tool in surgery and industry.
Khem Shahani : Microbiologist who conducted pioneer research on probiotics, he discovered the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus
Arjun Makhijani : Electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
George Sudarshan : Physicist, author – first to propose the existence of Tachyon
Kalpana Chawla : Female NASA Space Shuttle astronaut, and space shuttle mission specialist
Jogesh Pati : Theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Krishan Sabnani : Engineer and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey
Rajeev Motwani : Professor, Angel Investor.
Pranav Mistry: Sixth Sense Project
Sunita Williams : Female NASA astronaut
Bhargav Gajjar: (Gujarati:ભાગૅવ ગજજર) Aerospace robotics scientist, educator, entrepreneur from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of bioinspired robotics company Vishwa

Robotics

Thomas Anantharaman : Computer statistician specializing in Bayesian inference
Thomas Zacharia : Computational scientist
Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande : Physicist
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran : Behavioral neurologist and psychophysicist.
Mahadev Satyanarayanan : Computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing
Anirvan Ghosh : neuroscientist
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar : Control Theorist
Mani Lal Bhaumik : Contributor excimer laser technology.
Om Malik : Technology journalist and blogger
Pramod Khargonekar : Control Theorist, Dean and Eckis Professor, College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Vamsi Mootha : Physician-scientist and computational biologist
Chitranjan Singh Ranawat : Eminent orthopaedic and knee surgeon
Vineeta Rastogi : Public health worker
Deepak Chopra : Medical doctor
VA Shiva Ayyadurai : Former guest lecturer at MIT
Noshir Gowadia : Design engineer
Rangaswamy Srinivasan : in the Inventors’ Hall of Fame for pioneering work on excimer laser surgery.
Siva S. Banda : Aerospace engineer and researcher, recipient of a Silver Medal from the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Presidential Rank Award, and elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering
Rajiv Dutta : Technology manager
Subhash Kak : Head of the Computer Science department at Oklahoma State University.
Ajit Varki : Physician-scientist
Amit Singhal : Google Fellow, the designation the company reserves for its elite master engineers in the area of “ranking algorithm”.
Vic Gundotra : Former Senior Vice President, Engineering for Google
Arvind Rajaraman : Theoretical physicist and string theorist
Satya N. Atluri : Aerospace and mechanics
Deepak Pandya : Neuroanatomist
Pran Nath : Theoretical physicist at Northeastern University.
Sharmila Bhattacharya : Head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center.
Bedabrata Pain, co- inventor active pixel sensor
V. Mohan Reddy : World famous Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Stanford
Ashutosh Tewari : Professor of Urology at New York Presbyterian Hospital and noted prostate cancer surgeon.
Ramesh K. Agarwal : Aviation Pioneer, William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University

Medicine

Siddhartha Mukherjee, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (2011)
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta, Neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent, declined offer by President Barack Obama to be nominated U.S. Surgeon General.
Joia Mukherjee, Associate Professor with the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Yellapragada Subbarow, Harvard doctor & scientist – discovered folic acid, methotrexate.
Balamurali Ambati, physician, world’s youngest doctor at age 17.
Paul Antony, MD, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
E. Premkumar Reddy, World Famous Oncologist and Director of Fels institute of cancer research and molecular biology at Temple University.
Atul Gawande, General and endocrine surgeon, professor, medical author, and National Book Award finalist.
Amit Patel, Cardiovascular Surgeon and Stem Cell Researcher – First person to inject stem cells directly into the heart.
Sangeeta Bhatia, Harvard-MIT doctor & scientist – engineer of artificial liver cells.
Siddhartha Mukherjee Physician, scientist and writer, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2011).
Anita Goel, is a Harvard-MIT Physicist, Physician, Globally recognized expert in Nanobiophysics and Nanotechnology; Chairman & CEO, Nanobiosym; Inventor of the Gene-RADAR technology.
Sudip Bose,emergency medicine physician, educator, entrepreneur, and combat veteran who served as a physician on the front lines in Iraq for nearly 15 months which is one of the longest combat deployments by a physician since World War II.

Sports

Sonjay Dutt – TNA Pro Wrestler
Sanjay Lal, Wide receivers coach for the NY Jets
Alexi Grewal, first ever Indian American to win an Olympic medal, Gold Medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in cycling
James Blackmon, Jr., basketball player for the Indiana Hoosiers
Mohini Bhardwaj, second Indian American Olympic medalist, 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist in gymnastics
Raj Bhavsar, third Indian American Olympic Medalist, 2008 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the team gymnastics competition.
Sanjay Beach, was a former NFL wide receiver. He played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers.
Brandon Chillar, NFL player, linebacker for the Green Bay Packers (Father of Indian descent)
Sunil Gulati, in charge of United States Soccer Federation.
Laxmi Poruri, Tennis player
Shikha Uberoi, Tennis player
Rajeev Ram, Tennis player
Prakash Amritraj, Tennis player (born in U.S.)
Stephen Amritraj, Tennis player
Sonjay Dutt, TNA Pro Wrestler
The Great Khali, WWE Pro Wrestler
Jinder Mahal, WWE Pro Wrestler
Ami Parekh, Figure Skater
Vinay Bhat, chess grandmaster
Sushil Nadkarni, American cricketer
Sunitha Rao, Tennis Player

Yoga

Bikram Choudhury, yoga guru
Dipa Ma, yoga teacher
Harbhajan Singh Yogi, introduced Ku

I hope you are relieved that I have your name struck so you don’t figure here. And before I end I guess we all should understand there are some things we cannot erase and that is the origin we have and where our parents came from etc…. Having an Indian Origin is nothing to be ashamed of. Not just Indian, having any origin is not a matter of shame. It is what it is, since no one is superior than the other I think you should take it easy….

For many Indians it might be demeaning when you say that you don’t wish to be called an Indian American, whatever your intentions be. But here on I will not even mistakenly say that you are an Indian American. Because Bobby Jindal is just American.