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
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:
- http://www.ethnologue.com/language/TEL/***EDITION***
- http://www.indianexpress.com/news/miss-america-nina-davuluri-first-of-indian-heritage/1169842/
- 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
References:
- 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
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.
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.