NRI

The Indian diaspora is the second largest in the world, at 22,000,000. A large portion of that are Andhraite, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, and Tamilian. Sizable diasporas include those in the United States, South Africa, Malaysia, the Gulf States and Australia. The two main subsets are students and technology workers. Given the needs of the Global Subcontinental, this section not only highlights the accomplishments of Indics abroad, but also networks he or she to resources and recommendations that will assist in the transition to foreign societies.

Immigration

Visa

Student

H1-B

Green card

Diaspora

General

The Indic diaspora features a large array of successful professionals that have brought the Subcontinent great pride.

United States

Nina Davuluri

The first Miss America of Indian origin, Nina Davuluri won the title in 2013. An accomplished dancer and student, she impressed the judges with her eloquence, intelligence, beauty, and enthusiasm.

Satya Nadella

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CEO of Microsoft. In 2014, one of the technology world’s premier companies selected Telugu-origin Satya Nadella as their first Indian CEO–and only second chief executive since Bill Gates. It was a globally followed talent hunt that ended in the selection of Microsoft’s head of Cloud computing.

Indra Nooyi

Ajay Banga

Sundar Pichai

Vinod Dham

Vinod Khosla

Gururaj Deshpande

Neal Katyal

Sri Srinivasan

Mindy Kaling (Vera Chockalingam)

Sendhil Ramamurthy

Kal Penn (Kalpen Modi )

Padma Lakshmi

Aziz Ansari

Sanjay Gupta

Manoj “Night” Shyamalan

Hari Kondabolu

Manjul Bhargava

Award winning and internationally known Mathematician, Professor Manjul Bhargava is the recipient of the Fields’ Medal. He is famous for his crediting of Ancient Indic Mathematics and Sanskrit literature for both his refined Talent and recognised Teaching methods. He was recently granted the Padma Bhushan by India due to his outstanding contributions to not only Math and the Diaspora, but to Bharatiya Sanskriti.

Tony Kanal

Dalip Singh Saund

Bobby Jindal (Piyush Jindal)

Nikki Haley (Nimarta Randhawa)

Narayana Kocherlakota

One of the most respected economists in the United States and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He is half Andhra through his father.

Kalpana Chawla

Sunita Williams

References:
  1. http://www.ethnologue.com/language/TEL/***EDITION***
  2. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/miss-america-nina-davuluri-first-of-indian-heritage/1169842/
  3. http://www.startribune.com/business/79092972.html
Canada

Ujjal Dosanjh

Russell Peters

United Kingdom

Dev Patel

MIA

Panjabi MC (Rajinder Singh Ray)

Jay Sean (Kamaljit Singh Jhooti)

Parminder Nagra

Gurinder Chadha

Australia

Malaysia

Singapore

Kishore Mahbubani

K.Shanmugham

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

The former Senior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister won 70.41 per cent of the vote in the Sep 1 election, two weeks after his landslide victory. He took his oath of office at the Istana, in front of guests that included former presidents Halimah Yacob and Tony Tan, as well as members of the Cabinet.
References:
  1. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/tharman-shanmugaratnam-swearingin-singapore-president-3763676

South Africa

Germany

Gujjula Ravindra Reddy

Mayor of Altlandsberg, Germany, Member of state Parliament of Brandenburg, Germany

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2 thoughts on “NRI

  1. South Africa- Navi Pillay-Recent head of UNHCR
    Kumi Naidd- Former CEO of Greenpeace now Gen. Sec of Amnesty
    Internatonal
    ANC Struggle heros- Dr Gonum, Dr Dadoo, Kathrada, JM Naidoo etc

    PS: Though I wouldn’t call these western-created institutions paragons of
    virtue. On the contrary, they are Indic-undermining institutions. Today,
    so is the ANC.

    1. Namaskar. Appreciate your thoughtful comment and suggestions for prominent figures (will update to include soon). Also, based on your name, appears you are of Telugu or Tamil origin. If you would like to write an article on the experience of your language community in South Africa (or that of Indians in general), please let us know. You can email us at admin@indicportal.org or reach out to these other sites: Andhra Portal & Tamizh Portal. Thanks.

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