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model web site

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http://www.glitzmodelling.in/index.php
http://www.modelsguru.com/index.asp
http://indian-sari-models.blogspot.com/
http://www.models1.co.uk/
http://www.stormmodels.com/index.html
http://www.bossagencies.co.uk/creative.aspx?cat=8
http://www.misstopmodel.co.uk
http://www.impactmodelmanagement.co.uk/
http://www.elitemodelsindia.com/index.htm
http://www.rjsmodel.com/photography-shoots.html
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ndtv ad space

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Large Rectangle
Square Ad
Vertical Banner
Wide Skyscraper
NDTV IMAGINE
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Screenshot
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Wide Skyscraper
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Flash Banner :
Maximum weight – 30 kb
Maximum frame rate – 12-16 fps
Animation limit – 15 seconds
Stop all animations before 15 seconds.
Looping not allowed. Can add a replay button
Valid clickTAG on the topmost layer.
No URL Embedding Allowed
User Initiated Sound allowed, File loading not permitted.
Backup Image mandatory.
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Format Allowed : JPG or GIF
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Stop all animations before 15 seconds.
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List of British Asian people

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This is a list of British Asian people, namely people in the United Kingdom whose ethnic origin lies in South Asia (for the purposes of the list including Burma). Those with an East Asian ("Oriental") background are not listed; in British English, "Asian" tends to refer to the South (Indian subcontinent) rather than the East of the continent.

[hide]

1 Business and industry
2 Disability
3 Entertainment
4 Journalism and media
5 Literature & Art
6 Music
7 Politics
8 Sport
9 Other
10 References

[edit] Business and industry

Waheed Alli, co-Founder Planet 24.
Vikrant Bhargava, co-founder PartyGaming
Karan Bilimoria, Founder Cobra Beer.
Dinesh Dhamija, Founder Ebookers
Anurag Dikshit, co-founder PartyGaming
Hinduja brothers.
Firoz Kassam, former owner of Oxford United F.C.
Gulu Lalvani, Founder Binatone.
Avtar Lit, Founder Sunrise Radio.
Lakshmi Mittal, steel magnate.
Tahir Mohsan, founder Time Computers.
Sir Anwar Pervez, Founder Bestway Group
Arun Sarin, Chief Executive Vodafone.
Tom Singh, Founder New Look
Gulam Noon, Businessman
Paul Sagoo, Businessman
Syed Barique Mahmood, Founder & Chief Executive SBM Group

[edit] Disability

Ivan and Charika Corea, Founders Autism Awareness Campaign UK

[edit] Entertainment

Naveen Andrews, actor.
Mina Anwar, actor.
Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and actor.
Gurinder Chadha, movie director.
Ameet Chana, actor.
Kulvinder Ghir, actor.
Shobna Gulati, actor.
Konnie Huq, television presenter.
Waris Hussein, film and television director.
Indira Joshi, actor.
Rani Khanijau, television presenter.
Ben Kingsley, actor - born Krishna Bhanji, father - from Zanzibar of a Gujarati family, mother European Jewish.
Annabella Lwin, singer.
Art Malik, actor
Ismail Merchant, James Ivory's producer.
Freddie Mercury (real name Farrokh Bulsara), singer, member of rock band Queen
Rhona Mitra (1976 - ) actress and model; father from Calcutta^[2]
Shazia Mirza, comedian.
Suleman Mirza, lead dancer of Signature; runner-up on Britain's Got Talent 2008.
Jimi Mistry, actor.
Parminder Nagra, actor.
Simon Nagra, actor.
DJ Nihal, Radio DJ
Bobby Friction, Radio DJ.
Archie Panjabi, actor.
Ray Panthaki, actor.
Laila Rouass, actor.
Sunetra Sarker, actor.
Pooja Shah, actor.
Madhu Singh, dancer; member of Signature; runner-up on Britain's Got Talent 2008.
Meera Syal, author, comedian and actor.
Indira Varma, actor.
Nina Wadia, actor.
Vikram Dodd, criminal correspondent in The Guardian

[edit] Journalism and media

Sameera Ahmed, Television Journalist.
George Alagiah, Television journalist.
Jay Singh-Sohal, Television Journalist.
Fareena Alam, Editor Q-News.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Columnist.
Martin Bashir, Broadcaster
Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC politial correspondent
Reena Combo, Journalist and actress.
Sonia Deol, Presenter and Reporter.
Sonia Dutta, Broadcaster and Newsreader
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Television journalist.
Sunny Hundal, a journalist and a political blogger.
Faisal Islam, Television Journalist.
Saira Khan, Presenter.
Manish Sahi, Broadcaster
Adil Ray, Presenter and reporter.
Anita Rani, Presenter and reporter.
Hardeep Singh Kohli, Writer, presenter and reporter.
Martin Bashir, Television journalist
Ayan Panja, Doctor, writer and broadcaster.
Shihab Rattansi,Journalist and Presenter.

[edit] Literature & Art

Monica Ali, author - Bengali father and English mother.
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, playwright.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author and columnist.
Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal, author.
Kia Abdullah, author.
Gurj Sohal, poet, artist, speculator .
Govinder Nazran, artist.
Tariq Ali, author
Hanif Kureishi, author.
Abdul Ahad - Author, astronomer^[1]
Hari Kunzru, author.
Krishnan, C R, short story writer/ film maker -Frogs Under the Wheels
Raman Mundair, poet, writer and playwright, author of Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves, A Choreographer's Cartography and The Algebra of Freedom
V.S. Naipaul, author (from Indian community in Trinidad).
Salman Rushdie, author.
Vikram Seth, author.
Simon Singh, author of scientific and mathematical interest.
Meera Syal, author of Anita & Me and a few other books as well, also an actress, comedian and director.
Adil Ray
Bali Rai, Young adult fiction writer from Leicester^[2]

[edit] Music

- 1960 to present
Nimal Mendis, singer/songwriter - born in Sri Lanka.

- 1970-80's
Freddie Mercury singer of Queen is the most successful British Asian musician to date.

Born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar to an Indian Parsee family, educated in India and England.

Boy Chana Born in 1971 in Uganda East Africa to Punjabi parents. He is one of the first journalists to profle Bhangra music from the 80's with regular columns in Eastern Eye newspaper (1987-1998) and how work in community radio in Birmingham. His exhibition profiles Bhangra history www.sohoroadtothepunjab.org.uk
- 1990 to present
Jas Mann from Babylon Zoo known for the number one UK single Spaceman (song) which featured on a Levi's TV commercial in 1995.
Tjinder Singh, singer/guitarist of Cornershop known for the UK number one "Brimful of Asha" in 1998.
Sonya Madan, singer of BritPop act Echobelly who scored numerous Top 40 hits in the UK during the '90s.
Talvin Singh, Mercury award-winning Dance Musician.
Nitin Sawhney, Dance Musician.
Asian Dub Foundation underground rock band.
Swami, Alt/Hip-Hop/Electro Band
DJ Swami, music producer, DJ, songwriter and remixer, creative force behind the band Swami.
S-Endz, musician, performer and vocalist of Swami.
Jay Sean, singer
Juggy D, Bhangra Singer and producer
Sudha Kheterpal, percussionist, known for playing with Faithless and touring with The Return of the Spice Girls

- 2000 to present
Som Wardner singer songwriter in alternative rock band My Vitriol.
Natasha Khan singer songwriter in Mercury award-nominated Bat For Lashes.
Bally Sagoo, DJ and Music Producer.
M.I.A. aka Maya Arulpragasam, Mercury award-nominated singer.
Raghav pop singer from Canada but scored hits in the UK.
Bobby Friction and Nihal, Radio one & Asian Network radio presenters [and individually documentary presenters/writers/producers]
Rajinder Rai, aka Panjabi MC, dance musician
Rishi Rich, Bhangra Musician\Singer\Composer\Lyricist
Archis Tiku, Co-founder and bass player in Maximo Park
Jules Faife, World music guitarist based in London
Tristan Brown, Classical Pianist based in London

[edit] Politics

See also: British Asians in politics of the United Kingdom

Mancherjee Bhownagree, Conservative (Second Indian MP in British Parliament).
Parmjit Dhanda, Labour MP.
Navnit, Lord Dholakia, Liberal Democrat Peer.
Nirj Deva, Conservative MEP.
Parmjit Singh Gill, Former Liberal Democrat MP.
Syed Kamall, Conservative MEP
Piara Khabra, Labour MP.
Sadiq Khan, Labour MP.
Ashok Kumar, Labour MP.
Khalid Mahmood, Labour MP.
Shahid Malik, Labour MP.
Claude Moraes, Labour MEP.
Dadabhai Naoroji, Liberal Party (First Indian MP in British Parliament).
Chai Patel
Priti Patel, Conservative Party (former Press Secretary of William Hague's Press Office, Member of the A List and PPC for Nottingham North in 2005 General Election and Conservative PPC for Witham at the Next United Kingdom general election).
Lord Swaraj Paul
Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist MP.
Mohammad Sarwar, Labour MP.
Marsha Singh, Labour MP.
Shailesh Vara, Conservative MP.
Keith Vaz, Labour MP.
Salma Yaqoob, Respect Party Vice Chair, Birmingham City

[edit] Sport

First flag indicates country of origin. Second flag indicates country representing.

Usman Afzaal, cricketer.
Adnan Ahmed, footballer.
Kabir Ali, cricketer.
Kadeer Ali, cricketer.
Moeen Ali, cricketer.
Ravinder Bopara, cricketer.
Michael Chopra, footballer.
Nayan Doshi, cricketer.
Rana Majid Haq, cricketer.
Nasser Hussain, cricketer.
Rana Omer Hussain, cricketer.
Ronnie Irani, cricketer.
Amir Khan, boxer.
Haroon Khan, boxer .
Adam Langley-Khan, A1 Grand Prix driver.
Sajid Mahmood, cricketer.
Dimitri Mascarenhas, cricketer.
Monty Panesar, cricketer.
Min Patel, cricketer.
Samit Patel, cricketer.
Mark Ramprakash, cricketer.
Adil Rashid, cricketer.
Zesh Rehman, footballer.
Bilal Shafayat, cricketer.
Owais Shah, cricketer.
Harpal Singh, footballer.
Vikram Solanki, cricketer.
Anwar Uddin, footballer

[edit] Other

Flag indicates country of origin.

Maharaja Duleep Singh, Prince of Perthshire
George Edalji, barrister falsely accused of horse killing, defended by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Merle Oberon, British actress of mixed British, Sinhalese, and Irish descent.
Buck Ruxton, 1930's murder, born a Parsi.
Saira Shah, journalist, daughter of Idries Shah and a half Parsi woman.
Shami Chakrabarti, Human rights activist and Director of civil rights organization Liberty.
Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester

(NRIs) are people who hold an Indian citizenship legally, but do not live in India

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Canada

[edit] Arts & Entertainment

Deepa Mehta - film director (Bollywood/Hollywood, Fire, Water)
Lisa Ray - Bollywood actress (Bollywood/Hollywood, Water)
Joshua Kisoon Green - rock singer (controller.controller)
Avinash Patel - Just for Laughs, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Russell Peters - Stand-up Comedian
Raghav R&B/desi singer
Ashwin Sood - drummer for (and husband of) Sarah McLachlan
Renee Rosnes - jazz pianist and composer/arranger
Ruby Bhatia - VJ and television host
Sanjay Mishra - Guitarist recording of note Blue Incantation with Jerry Garcia

[edit] Literature & Media

Anita Rau Badami - novelist
Shauna Singh Baldwin - novelist
Monika Deol - former MuchMusic host and CIVT news anchor
Tara Singh Hayer - newspaper publisher
Ian Hanomansing - CBC journalist
Rohinton Mistry - novelist
Ajmer Rode - poet and playwright
Haroon Siddiqui - reporter, editor and columnist
Priscilla Uppal - novelist and poet
M.G. Vassanji - novelist (of Indian descent, although born and raised in Kenya)
Sarika Sehgal- CBC Canadian broadcast journalist

[edit] Politics

Bharat Agnihotri - Alberta Liberal MLA

Hardial Bains - founder and leader of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada from 1970-1997
Harry Bains - British Columbia New Democratic MLA
Navdeep Bains - Liberal Member of Parliament
Gulzar Singh Cheema - Manitoba and British Columbia MLA
Raj Chouhan - British Columbia NDP MLA
Herb Dhaliwal - Liberal MP and the first Indo-Canadian cabinet minister
Ruby Dhalla - Liberal MP
Vic Dhillon - Ontario Liberal MPP
Ujjal Dosanjh - former Premier of British Columbia, the first Indo-Canadian premier, former federal Minister of Health, and current National Defence Critic
Raminder Gill - former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP and federal Conservative candidate
Gurmant Grewal - former Conservative MP, half (with Nina, listed below) of the first married couple to serve as MPs in the same session of Parliament
Nina Grewal - Conservative MP, half (with Gurmant) of the first married couple to serve as MPs in the same session of Parliament
Bidhu Jha - Manitoba NDP MLA
Wajid Khan - Ontario Liberal MP
Kuldip Singh Kular - Ontario Liberal MPP
Harry Lali - BC NDP MLA
Gurbax Singh Malhi - Liberal MP
Rob Nijjar - former BC Liberal MLA
Moe Sihota - former British Columbia NDP MLA and television host
Deepak Obhrai - Alberta Conservative MP
Raj Pannu - former leader of the Alberta New Democrats, the first Indo-Canadian leader of a political party
Shiraz Shariff - Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA
Jaggi Singh - anti-globalization activist
Harinder Takhar - Ontario Liberal MPP and Minister of Transportation
Murad Velshi - former Ontario Liberal MPP

[edit] Sports

Joseph Harris cricketer
Manny Malhotra - Plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets in the NHL
Ishwar Maraj cricketer
Ashish Patel cricketer
Jitendra Patel cricketer
Abdool Samad cricketer
Emanuel Sandhu - figure skater
Abdur Sattaur cricketer

[edit] Academics & Researchers

Ram Murty, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University
C. R. Rao, Eberly Professor Emeritus, Penn State University, winner of National medal of science, USA, FRS (UK). Commonly regarded as the greatest living statistican.
Ravindra Khattree, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, internationally known statistician, Elected fellow of American Statistical Association, elected member of International Statistical Institute, winner of Young Statistician Award of International Indian Statisticial Association.

[edit] Others

Sudi Devanesen - physician and member of the Order of Canada
John Dossetor - physician and bioethicist, member of the Order of Canada
Shuman Ghosemajumder - businessman and computer scientist

[edit] Trinidad & Tobago

V. S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning author.
Basdeo Panday, former Prime Minister, current Leader of the Opposition.
Noor Hassanali, former President.
Jean Ramjohn-Richards, current First Ladyof Trinidad & Tobago
Mervyn M. Dymally, California State Assemblyman, former U.S. Congressman and former Lieutenant Governor of California.
Samuel Selvon, author.
Tatyana Ali
Bas Balkissoon
Neil Bissoondath
Rudranath Capildeo
Simbhoonath Capildeo
Dole Chadee
Dansam Dhansook
Winston Dookeran
Gokool
Ian Hanomansing
Khalid Hassanali
Franklin Khan
Fuad Khan
Harold Sonny Ladoo
Gillian Lucky
Krishna Maharaj
Ramesh Maharaj
Satnarayan Maharaj
Bhadase Maraj
Ralph Maraj
Lennox Mohammed
Shani Mootoo
Shiva Naipaul
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Lakshmi Persaud, Novelist
Sundar Popo, pioneer of Chutney music
Sonny Ramadhin, cricketer.
Kenneth Ramchand
Manny Ramjohn
Ria Ramnarine
Adrian Cola Rienzi
Lall Sawh, Urologist, Surgeon
Samuel Selvon
Raffique Shah
Rakesh Yankaran

[edit] Guyana

[edit] Politics

Cheddi Jagan, Former President of Guyana
Bharrat Jagdeo, Current President of Guyana
Sir Shridath Ramphal former Commonwealth Secretary General
Moses Nagamootoo politician
Peter Ramsaroop politician
Rupert Roopnaraine politician
Samuel Insanally politician
Joey Jagan politician
Lionel Luckhoo, politician, diplomat, and well-known lawyer
Dale Bisnauth politician
Ronald Gajraj politician

[edit] Sports

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, cricketer, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
Sewnarine Chattergoon, cricketer
Narsingh Deonarine, cricketer
Alvin Kallicharran, cricketer, West Indies legend
Rohan Kanhai, cricketer
Mahendra Nagamootoo, cricketer
Ryan Ramdass, cricketer
Ramnaresh Sarwan, cricketer, current West Indies player
Sew Shivnarine, cricketer

[edit] Others

Prof Bishnodat Persaud former Director, Commonwealth Secretariat and Professor, University of West Indies
Dave Baksh - former guitarist of Sum 41
Shakira Caine, former model, actress, wife of Michael Caine

[edit] Suriname

Ramsewak Shankar, former President (from 1988 to 1990)
Lachmipersad Frederick Ramdat Misier former acting President (from 1982 to 1988)
Ramdien Sardjoe, current Vice-President.

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] Arts & Entertainment

Naveen Andrews, actor.
Mina Anwar, actor.
Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian.
Gurinder Chadha, movie director.
Ameet Chana, actor.
Kulvinder Ghir, actor.
Shobna Gulati, actor.
Waris Hussein, film and television director.
Indira Joshi, actor.
Saira Khan, Presenter.
Rani Khanijau, television presenter.
Ben Kingsley, actor.
Ismail Merchant, James Ivory's producer.
Rhona Mitra (1976 - ) actress and model, daughter of a Calcutta-born father^[1]
Shazia Mirza, comedian.
Jimi Mistry, actor.
Parminder Nagra, actor.
Archie Panjabi, actor.
Ray Panthaki, actor.
Om Puri, actor.
Anita Rani, television and radio presenter
Laila Rouass, actor.
Sunetra Sarker, actor.
Pooja Shah, actor.
Meera Syal, comedian.
Indira Varma, actor.
Nina Wadia, comedian.
Bobby Friction and Nihal, Radio one presenters [and individually documentary presenters/writers/producers].
Rajinder Rai, aka Panjabi MC, dance musician.
Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen
Nitin Sawhney, dance musician.
Talvin Singh, dance musician.
Tjinder Singh, lead singer of Cornershop.
Jay Sean, R'n'B singer
Swami (musical band), Rap/Rock Band
Juggy D, singer
Veronica Mehta, singer
Rishi Rich, music producer

[edit] Business and Industry

Lakshmi Mittal, steel magnate.
Kanwal Rekhi, Internet Serial entrepreneur and mentor.
Vic Sethi, President and Founder Hyundai Corp. Electronics, UK
Arun Sarin, Chief Executive Vodafone.
Tom Singh, Founder New Look
Avtar Lit, Founder Sunrise Radio.
Karan Bilimoria, Founder Cobra Beer.
Gulu Lalvani, Founder Binatone.
Anurag Dikshit, co-founder PartyGaming
Vikrant Bhargava, co-founder PartyGaming
Hinduja brothers
Firoz Kassam, former owner of Oxford United F.C.

[edit] Literature and Media

George Alagiah, Television journalist.
Monica Ali, author.
Lord Waheed Alli, Television producer.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Columnist.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Television journalist.
Sunny Hundal, a journalist and a political blogger.
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, playwright.
V.S. Naipaul, author (from Indian community in Trinidad).
Salman Rushdie, author.
Vikram Seth, author.
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, author.
Simon Singh, author of scientific and mathematical interest.

[edit] Politics

See also British Asians in politics of the United Kingdom

Mancherjee Bhownagree, Conservative (Second Indian MP in British Parliament).
Parmjit Dhanda, Labour MP.
Nirj Deva, Conservate MEP.
Piara Khabra, Labour MP.
Sadiq Khan, Labour MP.
Ashok Kumar, Labour MP.
Claude Moraes, Labour MEP.
Dadabhai Naoroji,Liberal Party (First Indian MP in British Parliament).
Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist MP.
Marsha Singh, Labour MP.
Parmjit Singh Gill, Liberal Democrats.
Shailesh Vara, Conservative MP.
Keith Vaz, Labour MP.
Dinesh Solanki - Harrow UK [Conservative Party UK] [Harrow Council Councillor- Queensbury Ward]
Virendra Sharma - councillor in Ealing, England and a politician in the Labour Party and its candidate for the Ealing Southall by-election to be held on 19 July 2007.

[edit] Sports

Kabir Ali, cricketer.
Kadeer Ali, cricketer.
Michael Chopra, footballer, Newcastle United
Nasser Hussain, cricketer, former England captain
Ronnie Irani, cricketer.
Monty Panesar, cricketer.
Mark Ramprakash, cricketer.
Bilal Shafayat, cricketer.
Owais Shah, cricketer.
Harpal Singh, footballer, Leeds United AFC
Vikram Solanki, cricketer.
Mohit Mehta - Hertfordshire Cricket Player

[edit] Others

George Edalji, barrister falsely accused of horse killing, defended by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Merle Oberon, British actress of mixed British, Sinhalese, and Irish descent.
Buck Ruxton, 1930's murderer, born a Parsi.
Saira Shah, journalist, daughter of Idries Shah

[edit] Singapore

Main article: List of Indians in Singapore

[edit] Politics

The late CV Devan Nair, Singapore's third President (1981-1985), father of the modern trades union movement in Singapore.
Sellapan Ramanathan, President of Singapore since 1999, former head of Singapore's intelligence unit and Ambassador to the United States, amongst other senior positions in the civil service.
S Rajaratnam, former Senior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Labour and Culture. Co-foudner of the Peoples Action Party and Association of South East Asian Nations. Author of the Singapore Pledge. Seen as a founding father of modern Singapore.
S Jayakumar, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Law and co-ordinating Minister for Security. Former Foreign Minister and ambassador to the United Nations, and Dean of the Law School in Singapore.
S Dhanabalan, Chairman of Temasek Holdings and DBS Bank, former Minister of National Development, Trade and Industry and Foreign Affairs. Tipped by Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew as one of the four men he considered as a possible successor.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister of Education and former head of Singapore's defacto central bank.
Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Former CEO of Singapore General Hospital.
Dr.Balaji Sadasivan, Junior Minister.
J. B. Jeyaretnam, former opposition leader, and the first person to break the PAP monopoly in parliament in 1984. A former magistrate.
James Gomez, senior leader in the main opposition party (the Workers Party) and founder of 'Think Centre', a political NGO.

[edit] Entertainment

Gurmit Singh, leading actor and media personality
Kumar, leading drag superstar

[edit] Sports

V. Sundramoorthy, National footballer, team manager
Terry Pathmanathan, National footballer

[edit] Arts and Literature

Villayil Raman Gopala Pillai, Singaporean Malayalam novelist
Edwin Thumboo, award winning poet
Chandran Nair, Singaporean poet writing in English

[edit] Academics and Research

Philip Jeyaretnam

[edit] Business and Industry

Dileep Nair, Former managing director of DBS Bank, Singapore, and Under-Secretary General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services

[edit] Others

NRI NEWS Agranews

DIASPORA NEWS link title

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Arts and Entertainment

Alleycats, famous 80s band and frontman, Loganathan Arumugam
Kamahl cabaret/easy listening singer and recording artist, famous for The Elephant Song, currently based in Australia.
Poetic Ammo, hip hop band
Jaclyn Victor, winner of the first Malaysian Idol
Guy Sebastian, winner of Australian Idol 2003
Ronnie Pereira, lead guitarist and singer of the popular 70s band Revolvers, also known as the Malaysian Carlos Santana
Asha Gill, TV personality, DJ and women's rights activist
Kavita Sidhu, actress and former beauty queen
V. Nagaraj, director
Ash Nair, singer
Reshmonu, singer
Hans Isaac, actor, producer, director and former model.
Huzir Sulaiman, theatre personality, actor, director and writer.
Syed Thajudeen, artist
Indi Nadarajah, stage actor, comedian
Deborah Priya Henry, Miss Malaysia World 2007
Rani Moorthy, playwright and actress
Harikrish Menon, singer and songwriter

[edit] Literature and Media

Munshi Abdullah, early Malayan historian
Rani Manicka, writer
K. S. Maniam, novelist and academician
Rehman Rashid, journalist

[edit] Academics and Research

Jomo Kwame Sundaram, prominent economist, who is currently serving as the United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Dr Denison Jayasooria, social scientist
Prof Sittampalam Shanmugaratnam - Professor and researcher

[edit] Government Officers, Army and Judiciary

Tan Sri Dr Ramon Navaratnam, prominent Malaysian economist
B.C. Shekhar, Malaysia's Mr Natural Rubber that revolutionised Malaysia's rubber industry
Datuk Mahadev Shankar, prominent lawyer and former Court of Appeal Judge
Justice Datuk K.P. Gengadharan Nair, High Court Judge
Tan Sri G. Rama Iyer, former Secretary-General of the Primary Industries Ministry
Rear Admiral (rtd) Datuk K. Thanabalasingam, first Malaysian chief of the Royal Malayan Navy

[edit] Business and Industry

Raja Mudaliar, 16th century Malacca trader
K. Thamboosamy Pillay, pre-independence prominent businessman and community leader
Tan Sri Ananda Krishnan, one of Malaysia's richest men, runs a media empire that includes Maxis Communications
Datuk Tony Fernandes, the man who introduced no-frills, low-cost airlines (AirAsia) to Malaysia and Asia
Shoba Purushothaman, businesswoman
Bastianpillai Paul Nicholas, Malaysia's first Asian banker
Tan Sri G. Gnanalingam, executive chairman of Westport
Vinod Shekar, businessman, President and Group Chief Executive Putra Group.
Datuk K.L. Palaniappan, architect and businessman, executive director MK Land.
Tan Sri Kishu Tirathrai
Doraisingam Pillai, CEO of Lotus chain of restaurants and companies

[edit] Politics

[edit] Government

Tun V.T. Sambanthan, one of the founding fathers of independent Malaya
Datuk Seri Samy Vellu, president of the Malaysian Indian Congress and former Works Minister
Tan Sri V. Manickavasagam, sixth president of the Malaysian Indian Congress and former Minster of Communication in the Malaysian cabinet
Datuk K. Pathmanaban, former deputy minister and founder of Melaka Manipal Medical College
D.R. Seenivasagam, founder of PPP and politician
Datuk M. Kayveas, president of PPP and former deputy minister
Datuk G. Palanivel, former Deputy Minister of Women and Family Development and deputy president of Malaysian Indian Congress
Tan Sri G. Vadiveloo, former Speaker of the Senate
K.S. Nijhar, former Member of Parliament
Datuk K. Sivalingam, former member of the state executive council of Selangor
K. Parthiban, former state assemblyman for Ijok
S. Sothinathan, former deputy minister
Tan Sri Devaki Krishnan, the first Malaysian Indian woman to become a municipal councillor.
Datuk Dr Subramaniam Sathasivam, Human Resource Minister in the Malaysian cabinet

[edit] Opposition

Karpal Singh, chairman of opposition Democratic Action Party and member of parliament
Sivarasa Rasiah, a human rights lawyer and vice-president of the opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party)
David V., politician
Kula Segaran, MP for Ipoh Barat and DAP National Vice Chairman.
Gobind Singh Deo, opposition politician
Kumutha Rahman
V. Sivakumar, Speaker of the Perak State Assembly

[edit] Others

E. E. C. Thuraisingham, a politician of pre-Independence Malaya
John Thivy, freedom fighter and founding president of the Malayan Indian Congress
K.L. Devaser, fourth president of the Malaysian Indian Congress
K.S. Nallakarupan, politician
Tan Sri M.G. Pandithan, president of the Indian Progressive Front (IPF)

[edit] Activists

MGG Pillai (1939-2006), Malaysian journalist and political activist
Rasammah Bhupalan, social activist
Bishan Singh Ram Singh, social activist and environmentalist
Irene Xavier, women's rights activist
Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy, HINDRAF activist
P. Uthayakumar, HINDRAF activist
M. Manoharan, HINDRAF activist

[edit] Sports

[edit] Football

R. Arumugam, national football player (goalkeeper)
Santokh Singh, national footballer
Thirumurugan s/o Veeran, national footballer
Titus James Palani, international footballer, currently based in France
Shebby Singh,national footballer

[edit] Badminton

Datuk Punch Gunalan, retired national badminton player and IBF Executive Deputy President
Sutheaswari Mudukasan, national female badminton player

[edit] Cricket

Mahadevan Sathasivam, former captain of the Malaysian cricket team
Lall Singh, Former Indian Test cricketer
Suresh Navaratnam, captain of the Malaysian cricket team
Jeevandran Nair, cricketer
Marimuthu Muniandy, cricketer
Rakesh Madhavan, cricketer
Ramesh Menon, cricketer
Arul Suppiah, cricketer
Rohan Suppiah, cricketer
David Thalalla, cricketer
Santhara Vello, cricketer
Kunjiraman Ramadas, cricketer
Rohan Selvaratnam, cricketer

[edit] Other Sports Personalities

Datuk Dr Mani Jegathesan, 1960s athletics champion and known as the Flying Doctor
Nicol David, World Number 1 in women's squash
Thamby Rajah, father of Malaysian aikido
Murugayan Kumaresan, former national cyclist
Govindasamy Saravanan, national walker (athlete)
Karamjit Singh, professional rally driver
Nandakumar Puspanathan, rally driver

[edit] Others

Tan Sri K.R. Somasundram, freedom fighter, businessman and philanthropist
Toh Puan Uma Sambanthan
R. Thampipillay, educationist
Datuk Bernard Chandran, fashion designer
Janaky Athi Nahappan, freedom fighter
Maniam Moorthy, army personnel who was part of the Malaysian team to scale Mount Everest

[edit] Indonesia

Raam Punjabi (in Indonesian) , leading TV producer, media tycoon.
Gurnam Singh, Athlete, 3 Gold medal winner at 1962 Asian Games
H. S. Dillon, politician, various portfolios.

[edit] Hong Kong

[edit] Australia

Kamahl cabaret/easy listening singer and recording artist, famous for The Elephant Song
Indira Naidoo,television presenter and celebrity speaker
Virendra V. Singh, Rising Soccer superstar
Dr Deepak Malhotra, Broadcaster, TV presenter and medical practitioner
Rishi Raj Singh Sidhu famous kabaddi player of sydney

[edit] New Zealand

Anand Satyanand, First Governor General of Asian descent
Dipak Patel, international cricketer

[edit] Fiji

[edit] Academic

Rajesh Chandra, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fiji.
Brij Lal, historian.
Sarojini Pillay, Registrar of the University of Fiji.
Lal, Victor, University of Oxford

[edit] Business & Industry

Niranjan, Sangeeta: businesswoman.
Hari Punja, business tycoon
Anare Jale, Chief Executive Officer of the Fiji Public Services Commission

[edit] Politics

Mahendra Chaudhry, first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister (1999-2000)
Ahmed Ali (1938-2005), several times a cabinet minister.
George Shiu Raj, Cabinet Minister.
Anand Singh, Fiji Labour Party Senator and former Attorney-General.
Vijay R. Singh, former Cabinet Minister
Sidiq Koya, Leader of the Opposition National Federation Party
Dorsami Naidu, Leader of the National Federation Party
A.D. Patel (1905-1969), founder of the National Federation Party
Pramod Rae, General Secretary of the National Federation Party.
Jai Ram Reddy, Leader of the National Federation Party (1977-1987; 1992-1999); Judge.
Prem Singh, former NFP leader.
Raman Pratap Singh, National Federation Party leader.
Amjad Ali, FLP politician.
Narendra Arjun, former NFP parliamentarian
Kamlesh Kumar Arya, FLP politician.
Anand Babla, FLP politician.
Pratap Chand, FLP politician.
Ahmed Gaffar, FLP politician.
Gunasagaran Gounder, FLP politician.
Hafiz Khan, businessman and Senator.
James Shri Krishna, FLP politician.
Gopal Lakshman, FLP politician.
Surendra Lal, FLP politician.
Sanjeet Chand Maharaj, FLP politician
Perumal Mupnar, FLP Member of Parliament.
Damodran Nair, FLP Member of Parliament.
Gyani Nand, FLP politician.
Ragho Nand, FLP politician.
Udit Narayan, FLP politician.
Krishna Prasad], FLP Member of Parliament.
Ram Sharan], FLP politician.
Gyan Singh], FLP Member of Parliament.
Pravin Singh, FLP Member of Parliament
Satendra Singh], FLP politician.
Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi], Fiji Labour Party parliamentarian.
Shivlal Nagindas], Labasa businessman and former Senator.

[edit] Others

Singh, Vijay leading golfer, former World No.1
Mishra, Ghananand, jurist (1916-2005).
Chaudhry, Rajendra, lawyer.
Khan, Iqbal, controversial Fijian lawyer.
Nand, Nainendra, Solicitor-General of Fiji.
Sharma, Gabriel, first Indo-Fijian Anglican Bishop.

[edit] South Africa

Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum legendary Indian golfer
Umar Hajee Ahmed Jhaveri lawyer, assisted Gandhi in setting up the Natal Indian Congress.
Yusuf Dadoo, doctor and politician
Karthy Govender
Ronnie Govender
Ahmed Kathrada, political activist
Jody Kollapen
Dullah Omar, politician
George Naicker
Monty Naicker
Amma Naidoo
Indira Naidoo
Naransamy Roy Naidoo
Shanti Naidoo
Thambi Naidoo
Xavier Naidoo
Radhakrishna Padayachi, Deputy Minister for Communication
Thillaiaadi Valliammai

[edit] Mauritius

[edit] Politics

Abdool Razack Mohamed, one of the three founding fathers of independent Mauritius.
Sookdeo Bissoondoyal, politician and one of the three founding fathers of independent Mauritius.
Sir Dayendranath Burrenchobay, former governor-general
Sir Anerood Jugnauth, president
Navin Ramgoolam, prime minister
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, former prime minister and one of the three founding fathers of independent Mauritius
Veerasamy Ringadoo, former president
Cassam Uteem, former president
Dev Manraj, former Financial Secretary
Jaya Krishna Cuttaree diplomat
Madun Dulloo diplomat

[edit] Others

Ariranga Govindasamy Pillay, Chief Justice of Mauritius
Shirin Ameeruddy-Cziffra, human rights activist
Nathacha Devi Appanah, author,journalist
Dev Virahsawmy, writer, linguist
Vikash Dhorasoo, former French national soccer team player (born to Mauritian parents)

[edit] Kenya

[edit] Sports

Hitesh Modi cricketer
Ravindu Shah cricketer
Dipak Chudasama cricketer
Sandeep Gupta cricketer
Aasif Karim cricketer
Tanmay Mishra cricketer
Brijal Patel cricketer
Malhar Patel cricketer
Kalpesh Patel cricketer
Ramesh Sethi cricketer
Harilal Shah cricketer
Jawahir Shah cricketer
Alpesh Vadher cricketer

[edit] Others

Makhan Singh Freedom fighter
Yash Pal Ghai Chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission
M.G. Vassanji Novelist, Commonwealth Writers Prize winner
Zain Verjee CNN TV Anchor
Vithalbhai Patel Chairman and Founder of Laboratory and Allied Ltd. (Pharmaceuticals)

[edit] Seychelles

Kantilal Jivan Well-known businessman, guru, naturalist, historian, photographer and vegetarian cook.
Nirmal Shah Environmental expert, writer, fund raiser and civic leader.

Germany

Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan, Founder President,Ritnand Balved Edu.Fndn, Amity University (Germany)
Sebastian Edathy, member of parliament and of Angela Merkel´s grand coalition, social democrat

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[edit] Academic

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory.
Akhil Amar, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, an expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure.
Vikram Amar, Professor of Law at U.C. Hastings College of the Law.
Radhakishan Baheti [2], program director at National Science Foundation, Fellow of IEEE
Homi K. Bhabha, post-colonial theorist at Harvard.
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Chicago. Creator of the controversial oil-eating bacterium used in Gulf War.
K. Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology.
Anil Gupta [3], Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, and important philosopher and logician.
Dipak C. Jain, Dean of the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Aravind Joshi, computer scientist, defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism.
Thomas Kailath, Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Stanford University
Subhash Kak [4], Head of the Department, Oklahoma State University, Researcher in Neural Networks and Cryptography.
Narendra Karmarkar, mathematician, inventor of Karmarkar algorithm.
Neal Katyal, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law School, lead counsel in the landmark Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Ravindra Khattree, Internationally known statistician at Oakland University, Proved Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem.
Anil Nerode, mathematician, proved the Myhill-Nerode Theorem.
C.K. Prahalad, leading management guru.
Raghuram Rajan, IMF Chief Economist, inaugural winner of the Fischer Black Prize.
C. R. Rao, Internationally known and arguably most famous living statistician of Cramer-Rao Inequality and Rao-Blackwell Theorem fame, Indian Statistical Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University.
Raj Reddy, Turing Award winner and founder of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Amartya Sen, The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1998 (Nobel Prize for Economics).
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, post-colonial theorist, literary critic and deconstructionist who teaches at Columbia University.
Surain Subramaniam, professor of international relations and prolific author developing the theory of Asian Values
Madhu Sudan, computer science professor at MIT, winner Rolf Nevanlinna Prize.
George Varghese, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego
Divakar Viswanath, mathematician who discovered Viswanath's constant.
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, mathematician who specialised in probability, winner of the Abel Prize
Ramesh R. Rao, Qualcomm Endowed Chair Professor and Director of UCSD-CalIT2, University of California San Diego.

[edit] Science and Technology

Kalpana Chawla, female NASA Space Shuttle astronaut, and space shuttle mission specialist
Sunita Williams, NASA astronaut (second woman of Indian descent to head into space)
Mani Lal Bhaumik, inventor of excimer laser technology.
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1983.
Anil Dash, blogger and technologist
Narinder Singh Kapany, engineer, called the "Father of Fiber Optics".
Pramod Khargonekar Control Theorist, Dean and Eckis Professor, College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,
Om Malik, technology journalist and blogger
Arun Netravali, scientist, former President, Bell Labs, former CTO, Lucent.
C. Kumar N. Patel, developed the carbon dioxide laser, used as a cutting tool in surgery and industry.
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing
Amit Singhal, Google Fellow, the designation the company reserves for its elite master engineers in the area of “ranking algorithm”
George Sudarshan, physicist, author - first to propose the existence of Tachyon

[edit] Medicine

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)
Atul Gawande, general and endocrine surgeon , medical author, National Book Award finalist.
Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1968).
Sanjay Gupta, surgeon-physician and CNN cable news Chief Medical Correspondent. Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory University
Priyesh Patel- Founder of the Nrop Institute for Women and an alumni of University of Chicago.

[edit] Arts and Entertainment

Aziz Ansari, Comedian and MTV personality
Deeran Patel, Actor
Kim Singh, Producer of films and television shows. " The Kim Singh Show "
Sunkrish Bala, Actor
Samrat Chakrabarti, Actor, Musician
Sameer Bhattacharya, One of two guitarists in the Texas alternative rock band Flyleaf.
Summer Bishil, (one-half Indian)
Bizzy Bone, Rapper (one-quarter Indian)
Jay Chandrasekhar, Actor, Comedian, Writer and Director
Anand Chandrasekaran, Entrepreneur and Filmmaker
Rory Cochrane, Actor
Sabu Dastagir, Actor, USAF tailgunner in World War II
Noureen DeWulf, Actress, star of 2007 Oscar Winning West Bank Story, also starred in The Comebacks
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, First successful man of letters, Winner of Newbery Medal 1928
Zakir Hussain, Musician, Tabla Maestro
Vijay Iyer, Jazz musician and Composer
Archana Joglekar, Kathak dancer
Norah Jones, Musician, Grammy award winner 2003 (half-Indian - daughter of Ravi Shankar)
Anchal Joseph, Model, America's Next Top Model
Mindy Kaling, Writer, Producer, Actor on The Office. Plays the character Kelly Kapoor.
Tony Kanal, Bass player for No Doubt, Two-time Grammy award winner
Neeraj Katyal, Writer, Artist
Padma Lakshmi, Model, Top Chef Host
Aasif Mandvi, Actor
Shelly Malil, Film and TV Actor
Benny Mathews, Film and Music video director
Ajay Mehta, TV actor
Zubin Mehta, Conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Saira Mohan, Model
Govindini Murty, Co-founder of Liberty film festival. ref: http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/
Ajay Naidu, Actor
Mira Nair, Director, won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar for Salaam Bombay!
Sunil Nayar, TV writer and producer, a Producer of CSI: Miami
Kunal Nayyar, Actor (The Big Bang Theory)
Maulik Pancholy, Actor in 30 Rock, Weeds
Kal Penn, Actor (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Superman Returns)^[1]
Sendhil Ramamurthy, Actor, plays Mohinder Suresh in Heroes
Navi Rawat, Guest star on The O.C. and regular cast member on NUMB3RS
Naren Shankar, TV writer, producer and director, an Executive Producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Sheetal Sheth, Actress
Raje Shwari, R&B singer
M. Night Shyamalan, Filmmaker, actor
Manick Sorcar, Animator, artist, and producer
Babu Subramaniam, TV series Director and A.D.
Julie Titus, Contestant of America's Next Top Model
Kim Thayil, Guitarist for rock group Soundgarden
Paul Varghese, Comedian from Dallas, Texas appeared on Last Comic Standing

[edit] Business and industry

Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
Amar Bose, physicist and founder of Bose Corporation
Gurbaksh Chahal, Internet Entrepreneurs
Gururaj Deshpande, founder of Sycamore Networks
Vinod Dham, former microprocessor designer for Intel and creator of the Pentium processor
Rono Dutta, former President, United Airlines; Chairman, Air Sahara
Gunjan Bagla, Management Consultant, Managing Director, Amritt; Author Doing Business in 21st Century India
Rakesh Gangwal, former CEO and Chairman, US Airways Group
Rajat Gupta, former Managing Director, McKinsey & Company
Rajiv Gupta, a General Manager of Hewlett Packard
Ajit Jain, head of National Indemnity, possible successor to Warren Buffett
Anshu Jain, managing director and global head of capital markets at Deutsche Bank
Naveen Jain, former project manager at Microsoft and founder of InfoSpace.com
Vinod Khosla, general partner, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; co-founder, Sun Microsystems
Victor Menezes Chairman of the Clearing House Association, earlier been Chairman and CEO of Citibank and headed Citigroup’s Emerging Markets
Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo.
Shantanu Narayen is the current CEO of Adobe Systems.
Narendra Patni, Founder of Patni Computer Systems
Arvind Raghunathan, Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at Deutsche Bank, Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics
Kanwal Rekhi, businessman and engineer, Former EVP & CTO of Novell, Venture capitalist
Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup
Suhas Patil, founder, Cirrus Logic
Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone Inc. Headed the Vodafone takeover of Hutch-Esser Communications Inc.
Jay Sidhu, Former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
Sanjiv Sidhu, founder and CEO of i2 Technologies, a B2B Supply Chain integrator
Pradeep Sindhu, Co-founder and CTO of Juniper Networks
Ram Shriram, Businessman, co-founder of Junglee.com and board member at Google
Srik Soogoor, Founder & CEO, Visvo, Inc. a Search Engine Company at Visvo
Rana Talwar, banker, former Group CEO of Standard Chartered Bank
Pradeep K Jaisingh , MBA, CEO--International Oncology--www.internationaloncology.com
Padmasree Warrior,is the New Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems, (NASDAQ:CSCO) and the former CTO of Motorola, Inc Motorola She is named one of the four "Women to Watch 2006" by FORTUNE Magazine [5].
Dr.Prem Reddy, Founder and Chairman of Prime Healthcare Services, a healthcare management corporation in Southern California.
Ramani Ayer, Chairman and CEO, The Hartford Financial Services Group, a Fortune 100 Investment and Insurance Company.
Vyomesh Joshi, Executive Vice President, Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Company.
Lakshmi Narayanan, vice chairman and ex-CEO of Cognizant Corporation.
Ramakrishnan Chandrasekaran, President & Managing Director of Cognizant Coporation.

[edit] Literature and media

Agha Shahid Ali, poet
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor for continuous news, The Washington Post, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City (published by Knopf)
Deepak Chopra, author and speaker
Zain Verjee, CNN anchor
Sumi Das, CNN national correspondent
Shihab Rattansi, CNN International Anchor
Aneesh Raman, CNN Middle East correspondent
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN senior medical correspondent
Ali Velshi, business news anchor for CNN
Dinesh D'Souza, author and conservative political commentator
Pico Iyer, author and journalist for Time Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, and The New York Review of Books
Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Bobby Mehta, CEO of HSBC North America
Mish Michaels, meteorologist for the Weather Channel and the CBS News affiliate in Boston
Bharati Mukherjee, author
Tanuja Desai Hidier, author of Born Confused
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the first successful Indian man of letters in US
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poet
Uma Pemmaraju, senior news anchor for Fox News Channel
Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of National Review magazine
Snigdha Prakash, NPR Correspondent [6]
Chitra Raghavan, chief legal affairs correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, former NPR correspondent
Janaki Ram, author
Vikram Seth, poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist
Raj Shah Founder, Desh Videsh Magazine ( http://www.www.deshvidesh.com ) A Magazine Promoting the Indian Sub-contintent.
Saumitra Saxena, award winning poet in the modern Indian history. Graduated from Indian Institutue of Technology and received his Phd. from University of Illinois at Chicago.
Shauna Singh Baldwin, novelist, won the Commonwealth Writers Prizfor Best Book
Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University professor and WABC-TV technology reporter
Dr. Abraham Verghese noted Doctor and Author; "In My Own Country" and "My Tennis Partner"
Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek
Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
Anita Desai, author
Kaavya Viswanathan, teen-aged novelist, once famous for having a six-figure book deal and a Disney film, now notorious as a plagiarist.
Ravi Batra, bestselling author and economist
Thrity Umrigar, author of Bombay Time.

[edit] Politics

Harvinder "Harry" Anand, Mayor of Laurel Hollow, New York, the first Indian-American Mayor in New York.
Kumar P. Barve, State legislator and Majority Leader of the Maryland House of Delegates
Raj Peter Bhakta, entrepreneur, former The Apprentice contestant, and 2006 Republican U.S. House nominee
Satveer Chaudhary, state Senator in Minnesota.
Joy Cherian, 1st Asian and Indian American head of the EEOC
Upendra Chivukula, state legislator (New Jersey General Assembly); first Indian-American elected to the NJ legislature.
Swati Dandekar, an Iowa State Representative
Bhagwan Dashairya, 2006 nominee for Governor of Michigan of the U.S. Taxpayers Party.
Mervyn M. Dymally, Prominent Democrat politician; current California State Assemblyman; former State Senator, Lieutenant Governor, and Congressman; first Trinidadian to serve in California State Senate and as California Lt. Governor
Raj Goyle, a Kansas State Representative from Witchita
Kamala Harris, District Attorney of San Francisco; first Indian-American elected as a D.A. in the United States. Her sister, Maya Harris, was made the Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California in October 2006.
Bobby Jindal, former U.S. Congressman and current Governor of Louisiana; Republican.
Kris Kolluri, New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation.
Raj Mukherji, New Jersey lobbyist and businessman.
Dalip Singh Saund, the first Indian-American congressman, was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
S. R. Sidarth, Democratic campaign volunteer who sparked the George Allen "Macaca" incident.
Shashi Tharoor, Undersecretary General for Communications and Public Information for the United Nations. Candidate for UN general secretary post
Nikki Randhawa Haley, South Carolina legislator, First Republican Indian American state legislator elected in the US
Rachel Paulose first woman to become a U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, US Attorney for the District of Minnesota
Dr. Arjinderpal Sekhon, Ran for Congress from California's 2nd congressional district
Harry Sidhu, first Indian American elected to Anaheim City Council, November 2004; candidate for California's 33rd Senate District.
Dinesh D'Souza, Influential Conservative Thinker and Former Policy Analyst in the Reagan White House.
Amit Singh; Republican candidate for Congress from Virginia's 8th congressional district
Chirinjeev Kathuria; Republican candidate for Senate (16 Mar 2004) from Illinois. Is of Sikh background; businessman, medical doctor, and politician. Was running to fill soon-to-be vacated seat of U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald

[edit] Religion

K.A. Paul, founder of the Global Peace Initiative
Reverend Kiran Sankhla, the first female Hindu chaplain in the U.S.
Ed Viswanathan, author of Am I A Hindu?
Ramananda Prasad, founder of the International Gita Society
Ravi Zacharias, Evangelical Protestant author and apologetic
Muzammil Siddiqi, Ph.D., Chairman, Fiqh Council of North America
Rajan Zed, Hindu chaplain to read first Hindu prayer in United States Senate.
Prem Rawat, also known as Guru Maharaji Ji, head of the Divine Light Mission and later organizations
Eboo Patel, there's a lot about him on reputable media and other sites on the internet. And he's an Indian-American

[edit] Scripps National Spelling Bee Champions

[edit] Sports

Sanjay Beach was a former NFL wide receiver. He played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers.
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
Brandon Chillar, NFL player, linebacker for the St. Louis Rams.
Alexi Grewal, first ever Indian American to win an olympic medal, Gold Medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in cycling
Sunil Gulati in charge of American Soccer Federation
Laxmi Poruri, first Indian-born female professional tennis player
Rajeev Ram, tennis player
Sonjay Dutt, TNA Pro Wrestler
The Great Khali, WWE Pro Wrestler

[edit] Others

Preeta D. Bansal, former Solicitor General of the State of New York and Commissioner and Past Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women.
Sabita Singh, first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts history
Bhagat Singh Thind, civil rights figure, lecturer, author
Urvashi Vaid, famous gay rights activist
Dr. Abraham George, Philanthropist Humanitarian, Founder of The George Foundation (TGF)

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Artists

Anish Kapoor, Sculptor

[edit] Businesspeople

Vikrant Bhargava, Entrepreneur - former Group Marketing Director of PartyGaming
Nina Bracewell-Smith, Non-executive director of Arsenal F.C.
Anurag Dikshit, Billionaire co-founder of PartyGaming
Hindujas, A Family of Business people
Firoz Kassam, Former owner of Oxford United F.C.
Lakshmi Mittal, Billionaire Industrialist
Gulam Noon, Founder of food product companies specialising in Indian cuisine
Tom Singh, Founder of the New Look

[edit] Dancers

Shobna Gulati
Jasmine Simhalan, Also Martial Artist
Madhu Singh, dancer; member of Signature; runner-up on Britain's Got Talent 2008.

[edit] Film

[edit] Actors

[edit] Directors

[edit] Journalists

[edit] Medicine

Sake Dean Mahomet

[edit] Models

[edit] Music

Amar, Singer
Apache Indian, Singer, Songwriter
Reena Bhardwaj, Singer
Sheila Chandra, Singer
DCS, Bhangra band
DJ Kayper, DJ
Dr Zeus, Music Director
Juggy D, Bhangra Singer
Johnny Kalsi, Dhol Drummer
Anya Lahiri, Singer
Mentor Kolektiv, Bhangra Group
Freddie Mercury, Lead Singer of Queen
Daljit Neer, Founder of Neer Productions
DJ Nihal, DJ
Nerina Pallot, Singer
Bally Sagoo, DJ
Nitin Sawhney, Musician, Producer and Composer
Ms Scandalous, Bhangra/ Rap Artist
Jay Sean, R&B Singer
S-Endz, Rapper
Anoushka Shankar, Sitar Player
Sukshinder Shinda, Bhangra Producer and Artist
Shri
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Composer
DJ Swami, DJ, Producer, Guitarist

[edit] Photographers

Pamella Bordes, Plus former Miss India

[edit] Philosophers

[edit] Political Figures

Mancherjee Bhownagree, MP
Harpal Brar, Communist politican and writer
Rajani Palme Dutt, Leading figure in the Communist Party of Great Britain
Ramesh Kallidai, Secretary General of the Hindu Forum of Britain
Piara Khabra, MP
Claude Moraes, Member of European Parliament representing the Labour Party in London
Dadabhai Naoroji, MP
Shapurji Saklatvala, MP
Atma Singh
Udham Singh, Indian Independence activist

[edit] Professors

Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, Scholar of Political Science, International Relations and South Asian Studies
Sarvadaman Chowla, Mathematician
Ravinder N. Maini, Professor of rheumatology

[edit] Religious Figures

Satish Kumar, Jain monk
Harish Purohit, Hindu priest

[edit] Radio

Nikki Bedi, Radio Presenter
DJ Kayper, Radio Presenter
Ameet Chana, Radio Presenter
Sonia Deol, Radio Presenter
Tilusha Ghelani, Radio Producer
Avtar Lit, Chairman of Sunrise Radio
Daljit Neer, Radio Presenter
DJ Nihal, Radio Presenter
Anita Rani, Radio Presenter
Manish Sahi, Radio Presenter
Shabnam Dutta, Radio Presenter
Rozina Sini, Radio Presenter

[edit] Sport

[edit] Cricketers

[edit] Footballers

Michael Chopra, Sunderland A.F.C.
Harpal Singh, Bohemian F.C.

[edit] Other

Surinder Sunar, Professional Poker Player

[edit] Television

Anjum Anand, TV Chef
Naveen Andrews, Actor (LOST)
Erick Avari, Actor
Nikki Bedi, Presenter
Sanjeev Bhaskar, Comedian and Actor
Chris Bisson, Actor
Ameet Chana, Actor
Charu Bala Chokshi, Actress
Shelley Conn, Actress
Ayesha Dharker, Actress
Sonia Deol, Presenter
Daljit Dhaliwal, Newsreader and Presenter
Kulvinder Ghir, Actor
Shobna Gulati, Actress
Rebecca Hazlewood, Actress
Waris Hussein, Director
Raji James, Actor
Anjali Jay, Actress
Indira Joshi, Actress
Ronny Jhutti, Actor
Preeya Kalidas, Actress
Ravi Kapoor, Actor
Shobu Kapoor, Actress
Sarita Khajuria, Actress
Rani Khanijau, Children's TV Presenter
Ben Kingsley, Actor
Edmund Kingsley, Actor
Inder Manocha, Comedian
Jamila Massey, Actress
Sangita Myska, TV Presenter
Parminder Nagra, Actress (ER)
Bharat Nalluri, TV Director
DJ Nihal, TV Presenter
Shefali Oza, Newsreader
Babita Pohoomull, Actress
Anita Rani, TV Presenter
Shihab Rattansi, Newsreader
Kavi Raz, Actor
Laila Rouass, Actress
Salima Saxton, Actress
Pooja Shah, Actress
Bindya Solanki, Actress

[edit] Writers

[edit] Other

George Edalji, Solicitor
Armaan Genomal, Child Prodigy
Nagachetan Bangalore M, Research Fellow and a Scientist

Bangladeshi communities in london

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Bangladeshi communities

Bangladeshi London

See also: Bangladeshi British, Lists of U.K. locations with large South Asian populations, all data below is based on 2005 estimates and is for Bangladeshi people in the UK regardless of birthplace.^[1]

London - 166,900 (2.2% of the city's population)
- Tower Hamlets - 65,000 (30% of the borough's population, and possibly the largest most compact Bangladeshi community in the diaspora)
- Newham - 22,500 (10%)
- Camden - 12,600 (6%)
Birmingham - 22,700 (2%)
Oldham - 10,700 (5%)
Luton - 8,000 (4%)
Bradford - 5,500 (1%)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - 2,900 (1%)

Pakistani British

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See also: , Lists of U.K. locations with large South Asian populations, all data below is based on 2005 estimates and is for Pakistani people in the UK regardless of birthplace.^[18]

London - 163,800 (2.2% of the city's population)
- Newham - 21,000 (8.7%)
- Waltham Forest - 17,500 (7.7%)
- Redbridge - 15,000 (6.6%)
- Ealing - 11,500 (3.9%)
- Brent - 11,000 (4.3%)
- Hounslow - 9,500 (4.4%)
- Croydon - 7,500 (2.6%)
- Wandsworth - 5,500 (1.9%)
- Harrow - 4,500 (2.5%)
- Hillingdon - 4,000 (1.8%)
- Barnet - 4,000 (1.6%)
- Barking & Dagenham - 3,000 (2.2%)
Birmingham - 105,000 (10.4%)
Bradford - 70,000 (23.8%)
Huddersfield/Kirklees - 27,000 (6.8%)
Manchester - 23,500 (5.2%)
Glasgow - 22,000
Luton - 17,500 (9.4%)
Rochdale - 16,000 (16.7%)
Sheffield - 16,000 (3.0%)
Leeds - 15,500 (3.5%)
Slough - 15,000 (12.0%)
Oldham - 14,000 (13.5%)
Blackburn - 12,500 (11.9%)
Nelson/Pendle - 12,000 (13.1%)
High Wycombe - 10,000 (8.5%)
Walsall - 10,000 (5.6%)
Halifax/Calderdale - 10,000 (5.0%)
Nottingham - 10,000
Derby - 9,000
Sandwell - 8,500 (3.0%)
Peterborough - 7,500 (4.6%)
Middlesbrough & Stockton-on-Tees - 7,500
Bolton - 7,000 (5.0%)
Stoke-on-Trent - 7,000 (3.0%)
Dudley - 6,500 (3.3%)
Coventry - 6,500 (2.1%)
Bury - 6,000 (9.9%)
Accrington/Hyndburn - 6,000 (7.3%)
Edinburgh - 6,000
Rotherham - 5,000 (4.3%)
Leicester - 5,000
Newcastle Upon Tyne - 5,000
Bristol - 4,500
Burton-on-Trent - 4,000 (6.6%)
Watford - 4,000 (5.0%)
Wakefield - 3,500 (4.4%)
Crawley - 3,000 (3.0%)
Stockport - 3,000 (2.2%)
Trafford - 3,000 (1.4%)
Wolverhampton - 3,000 (1.3%)
Cardiff - 3,000

Indian communities

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See also: Indian British, Lists of U.K. locations with large South Asian populations, all data below is based on 2005 estimates and is for Indian people in the UK regardless of birthplace.^[7]

London - 480,300 (6.4% of city's population)
- Harrow - 47,100 (22.0%)
- Brent - 48,900 (18.1%)
- Ealing - 45,800 (15.0%)
- Hounslow - 39,700 (18.3%)
- Redbridge - 35,700 (14.3%)
- Newham - 30,300 (12.1%)
- Barnet - 28,600 (8.8%)
- Croydon - 25,100 (7.5%)
- Hillingdon - 24,700 (10.0%)
Leicester - 71,200 (24.9%)
Birmingham - 59,800 (6.0%), 193,300 in metro area (3.6%)
Wolverhampton - 28,400 (12.0%)
Coventry - 24,800 (8.1%)
Slough - 17,500 (14.7%)
Kirklees - 16,500 (4.2%)
Leeds - 16,000 (2.2%)
Bolton - 15,600 (5.9%)
Blackburn - 14,400 (10.2%)
Bradford - 14,100 (2.9%)
Walsall - 14,000 (5.5%)
Preston - 10,900 (8.3%)
Manchester - 10,200 (2.3%)
Derby - 9,500 (4.0%)
Nottingham - 8,500 (3.0%)
Charnwood - 8,000 (5.0%)
Bristol - 7,700 (1.9%)
Bedford - 6,500 (4.3%)
Oadby and Wigston - 6,300 (11.2%)
Sheffield - 5,700 (1.1%)
Trafford - 5,200 (2.4%)

British Indian

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British Indians (also Indian British or Indian Britons) are citizens of the United Kingdom whose ancestral roots lie in the South Asian country of India. This includes people born in the UK, who are of Indian descent or Indian born people who have immigrated to the UK. Today Indians number around one and a half million in the UK (not including those of mixed Indian and Other ancestry), making them the single largest ethnic minority population in the country. They make up the largest subgroup of British Asians, and are one of the largest Indian communities in the Indian diaspora, largely thanks to the Indian-British relations (including historical links such as India once being part of the British Empire and still being part of The Commonwealth of Nations). The Indian British community is the fifth largest in the Indian diaspora, behind the Indian communities in the UAE, USA, Malaysia and Burma.

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1 Demographics
2 Notable Indian Britons
3 References
4 See Also

[edit] Demographics

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[edit] Ethnicity

In the 2001 UK Census, Indians in the UK were most likely to have responded to code 41 - Indian or Indian British.

[edit] Population

The United Kingdom holds host to the fifth largest Indian diaspora on the planet

According to the 2001 UK Census 1,053,411 people (1.8% of the country's population) was of Indian descent. Between 2001 and 2005, National Statistics has released estimates for the number of Indians in England only. They were as follows: 2001 - 1,045,600, 2002 - 1,074,700, 2003 - 1,109,100, 2004 - 1,156,000, 2005 - 1,215,400. In 2008, including those of Partial Indian heritage, there are likely to be at least 1,500,000 in England alone, with around 1,600,000 in the UK as a whole.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Population spread

The table below shows the dispersity of Indian people in the United Kingdom. The figures for all of the English regions, cities and boroughs are based on 2005 estimates, whilst the figures for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are from the 2001 Census.

Region	Population	Indian Population	Indians as Percentage of Population	Cities / Boroughs with Significant Indian communities
Greater London [1]	7,456,100	480,300	6.4%	Harrow - 22.0% of city's population Hounslow - 18.3% Brent - 18.1% Ealing - 15.0% Redbridge - 14.3% Newham - 12.1% Hillingdon - 10.0% Barnet - 8.8% Croydon - 7.5%
West Midlands [2]	5,350,700	193,300	3.6%	Wolverhampton - 12.0% of the city's population Coventry - 8.1% Birmingham - 6.0% Walsall - 5.5% Sandwell - 9.4%
East Midlands [3]	4,327,500	136,800	3.2%	Leicester - 24.9% of the city's population Oadby and Wigston - 11.2% Charnwood - 5.0% Derby - 4.0% Blaby - 3.5% Nottingham - 3.0% Northampton - 2.2%
South East [4]	8,184,600	122,500	1.5%	Slough - 14.7%
North West [5]	6,839,800	90,800	1.3%	Blackburn - 10.2% of the city's population Preston - 8.3% Bolton - 5.9% Trafford - 2.4% Manchester - 2.3%
East [6]	5,563,000	74,800	1.3%	Cambridge - 2.7% Bedford - 4.3% Luton - 4.2%	Yorkshire and the Humber [7]	5,107,500	67,500	1.3%	Bradford - 2.9% Leeds - 2.2% Kirklees - 4.2% Sheffield - 1.1%
South West [8]	5,086,700	33,300	0.7%	Bristol - 1.9% Gloucester - 2.0%
Scotland [9]	5,094,800	17,000	0.3%
North East [10]	2,549,700	16,200	0.6%	Newcastle Upon Tyne - 1.7%
Wales [11]	2,903,085	8,200	0.3%	Cardiff - 1.25%
Northern Ireland [12]	1,685,267	1,600	0.1%

[edit] Religion

Most Indian in the UK are Hindus with 45%,Sikhs with nearly 30%, Muslims with 12% and there is also a strong Christian community of 5% and many more religions.

[edit] Notable Indian Britons

Main article: List of Indian Britons

Indians in the United Kingdom
George Edalji, Shobna Gulati, Freddie Mercury Lakshmi Mittal, Mark Ramprakash

Total population
Estimated at around 1,600,000 2.7% of the UK's population^{[citation needed]}
Regions with significant populations
Throughout the United Kingdom In paticular London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester, Leeds, Glasgow, Preston, Sheffield, Liverpool, Nottingham, Southampton, Bristol, Newcastle upon Tyne, Slough, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Stoke on Trent, Coventry
Languages
English (British English, Indian English) · Hindi · Punjabi · Urdu · Gujarati and Various Other Languages of India
Religion
Hinduism · Sikhism · Islam · Christianity · and many more
Related ethnic groups
Asian British · Indian Diaspora · Indian people · Anglo-Indians

Indira Varma

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Indira Varma (born 1973 in Bath, Somerset) is an English actress. Before her rise to fame she was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in 1995.

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1 Early life
2 Career
3 Filmography and Television
4 Theatre
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Early life

She was the only child of an Indian father and a Swiss mother who was part Genoese Italian.^[1]

[edit] Career

Varma has had a number television and film roles, including Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in 1997 and Bride and Prejudice in 2004, and the young Roman wife Niobe during the first season of BBC/HBO's historical drama series Rome. Her character appeared briefly in the second season of the award-winning series when it aired on Sunday, January 14, 2007.^[2]

In 2006 she played Suzie Costello in the first and eighth episodes, "Everything Changes" and "They Keep Killing Suzie", of BBC Three's science-fiction drama series Torchwood.^[3] She appeared as Dr. Adrienne Holland in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs^[4] which premiered on November 14, 2006^[5] and was cancelled on November 30, 2006 due to poor ratings.[1][2]

[edit] Filmography and Television

The Finest (2009) .... D.S Madeline Jenner (pre-production)
Bones_(TV_series) (1 episode, Yanks in the UK, 2008) .... Inspector Cate Pritchard
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 episode, Assassin, 2008) .... Bela Khan
Comanche Moon (2008) TV mini-series .... Therese Wanz
The Whistleblowers (6 episodes, 2007) .... Alisha Cole
Sex and Death 101 (2007) .... Devon Server (uncredited)
3 lbs (6 episodes, 2006) .... Dr. Adrianne Holland
Torchwood (2 episodes, Everything Changes and They Keep Killing Suzie, 2006) .... Suzie Costello
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (1 episode, In the Blink of an Eye, 2006) .... Melissa Booth
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) .... Denise Glass
Pride and Prejudice Revisited (2005) (TV) .... Kiran Balraj (uncredited) (archive footage)
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment' (2005) (V) .... Herself
Rome (15 episodes, 2005-2007) .... Niobe
Little Britain (3 episodes, #3.1, #3.5 and #3.6, 2005) .... ... / Babysitting Mother / Health Spa Receptionist
Broken News (6 episodes, 2005) .... Melanie Bellamy - ESN
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005) (TV) .... Lucie ("the Dark Lady")
Love Soup (1 episode, They Do Not Move, 2005) .... Suzanne Daley
The Quatermass Experiment (2005) (TV) .... Judith Carroon
Bride and Prejudice (2004) .... Kiran Bingley
Donovan (2004) .... Cara Mathis
Reversals (2003) (TV) .... Kathy Irwin
The Canterbury Tales (1 episode, The Sea Captain's Tale, 2003) .... Meena
Rockface (1 episode, #2.5, 2003) .... Alison
Mad Dogs (2002) .... Narendra
Attachments (4 episodes, User Friendly, The Irony Act, Gaydar and Eye Candy, 2000-2001) .... Sasha
The Whistle-Blower (2001) (TV) .... Diane Crossman
In a Land of Plenty (unknown episodes, 2001) .... Sonali Ganatra
Sci-Fright (unknown episodes, 2000) TV series .... Host - Nina (2000)
Other People's Children (unknown episodes, 2000) .... Amy
Zehn wahnsinnige Tage (2000) (TV) .... Ra
Psychos (1999) TV mini-series .... Dr. Martine Nichol
Jinnah (1998) .... Ruttie Jinnah
Sixth Happiness (1997) .... Amy
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) .... Maya
Crucial Tales: Phoenix (1996) TV mini-series .... Manreet
Clancy's Kitchen (1996) .... Kitty

[edit] Theatre

In 1997 Varma played Bianca in Shakespeare's Othello at the National Theatre, London. In 2001 she appeared in Remembrance of things past by Marcel Proust at the National Theatre, London. Also in 2001 she played Gila in One for the Road by Harold Pinter at the Lincoln Center in New York, United States.

In 2002 she played Sasha Lebedieff in Ivanov by Anton Chekhov at the National Theatre, London and Bunty Mainwaring in The Vortex by Noel Coward at the Donmar Theatre, London. In 2004 she played Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder at the Young Vic Theatre Theatre, London. And in 2008 she played Nadia Baliye in The Vertical Hour by David Hare at the Royal Court Theatre London.

Kal Penn

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Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977), known by his stage name Kal Penn is an American actor and producer. He is known for his starring roles in National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, The Namesake (2007), Epic Movie (2007), and the recently released Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008). He currently plays the role of Dr. Lawrence Kutner in the TV series House.

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1 Biography
2 Filmography
- 2.1 Films
3 Television roles
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Penn was born in Montclair, New Jersey to an engineer father and a mother who worked as a fragrance evaluator for a perfume company; both of his parents were immigrants of Indian Gujarati ancestry.^[1] He attended middle school at Marlboro Middle School, and played baritone saxophone in the jazz band there. Penn is an alumnus and graduate of Freehold Township High School, but is sometimes said to be a graduate of Howell High School where he was active in the school's theater productions, and The Fine and Performing Arts Specialized Learning Center for three years. He attended UCLA where he double majored in Film and Sociology. While at UCLA, he was a founding member of the underground intellectual society, "6 South". He also played a big role in the on-campus club, Sanganhj, which has also disbanded.

[edit] Career

Penn's feature film debut came in 1998 in Express: Aisle to Glory. He has since appeared in American Desi, National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Malibu's Most Wanted, A Lot Like Love, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Dude, Where's the Party?, Love Don't Cost a Thing, Superman Returns, National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, Epic Movie, The Namesake, and Harold & Kumar 2. Penn was featured in the The Lonely Island's rejected Awesometown MTV pilot music video, along with his friend Brandon Routh (who played Superman in Superman Returns).

Penn says that he chose the stage name Kal Penn (from Kalpen Suresh Modi) as a lark: “Almost as a joke to prove friends wrong, and half as an attempt to see if what I was told would work (that anglicized names appeal more to a white-dominated industry), I put ‘Kal Penn’ on my resume and photos." His audition callbacks rose by 50%.^[2] Penn has stated that he prefers his birth name and uses "Kal Penn" only for professional purposes.

In January 2007, Penn appeared in the first four episodes of the sixth season of 24 as Ahmed Amar, a teenage terrorist. Penn says he nearly turned down the role due to personal ethics, stating, "I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it’s repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage. As an actor, why shouldn’t I have that opportunity? Because I'm brown and I should be scared about the connection between media images and people's thought processes?"^[3]

Also in January 2007, he appeared in the spoof comedy Epic Movie as well as the television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where he played a recognition-starved rapist and murderer. In May 2007, Penn received the Asian Excellence Award for Outstanding Actor for his performance in The Namesake.^[4]

In fall 2007, Penn joined the cast of the FOX medical drama House as one of Dr. House's new fellowship applicants.^[5] According to E!, Penn has signed on as a regular on the show along with Olivia Wilde and Peter Jacobson and this was confirmed in the plot of the episode Games.

In spring 2008, Penn served as visiting lecturer in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.^[6]^[7] He taught a course titled “Images of Asian Americans in the Media”.^[8]

[edit] Personal life

Penn is a noted vegetarian. During the filming of Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, technicians provided him with veggie burgers for the scenes requiring him to eat.^[9]

Penn was a guest professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 2008. According to his students, he asked to be referred to as Professor Modi rather than Kal Penn, which he considered assumptive and disrespectful. He was noted to be as strict as any other professor.^[10]

In 2008, Penn campaigned for Senator Barack Obama's presidential bid with House co-star Olivia Wilde.^[11] He appears in the Obama video, Si Se Puede Cambiar by Andres Useche.

Penn moved to Des Moines, Iowa during the Hollywood writers' strike in 2007 to work full-time for Senator Obama's Presidential Campaign. He continues to serve as a surrogate and also serves on the Campaign's National Arts Policy Committee.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Express: Aisle to Glory	Jackie Newton
1999	Freshman	Ajay
2001	American Desi	Ajay Pandya
2002	Hector	Kendal Cunningham
2002	National Lampoon's Van Wilder	Taj Badalandabad
2003	Love Don't Cost a Thing	Kenneth Warman
	American Made	(as Kalpen Modi) Jagdesh
	Malibu's Most Wanted	Hadji
	Dude, Where's the Party?	Mo (Mohan Bakshi)
2004	Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle	Kumar Patel
2004	Ball & Chain	Bobby
2005	Sueño	Raj
	A Lot Like Love	Jeeter
	Son of the Mask	Jorge
	Dancing in Twilight	Sam
2006	Bachelor Party Vegas	Z-Bob
	Man About Town	Alan Fineberg
	Superman Returns	Stanford
	Deck The Halls	Amit Sayid
	National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj	Taj Badalandabad
2007	The Namesake	Gogol/Nikhil Ganguli	Released March, 2007
2007	Epic Movie	Edward	January 26, 2007
2008	Under New Management	Wheeler	pre-production
2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay	Kumar Patel	Released April 25, 2008

[edit] Television roles

Year	Title	Role
2007	24	Ahmed Amar
	House (2007-Present)	Dr. Lawrence Kutner
	Law and Order: Special Victims Unit	Henry Chanoor
2006	The Danny Comden Project	Max
2004	Homeland Security	Harrison
2003	Tru Calling (Haunted)	Steven
	All About the Andersons	George
	Cosmopolitan	Vandana's fiancé
2001	The Agency	Malek
	NYPD Blue	Solomon Al-Ramai
	ER	Narajan
	Angel	Fez Boy
2000	Spin City	Buddy
2000	Sabrina, the Teenage Witch	Prajeeb
1999	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Hunt
1999	Brookfield	Kumar Zimmerman

[edit] References

^ Kal Penn: Hollywood's Desi No1!
^ Nirali Magazine | Kal Penn Goes To Hollywood
^ 'Harold & Kumar' and '24' Actor Kal Penn on His New Movie 'The Namesake' - New York Magazine
^ Asian Excellence Awards - Winners
'^ "CNN.com". 'House' gets a new group of trainees. Retrieved on July 18, 2007.
^ Penn: Office of University Communications: Actor Kal Penn to Teach at the University of Pennsylvania
^ Kal Penn to teach at Penn in spring '08 - News
^ Asian American Studies Program at University of Pennsylvania
^ USATODAY.com - Penn and Cho go to NYC's Pop Burger
^ [1]
^ Abby Goodnough, In ’08 Politics, Rhode Island Defies Its Size, The New York Times, March 1, 2008.

Maulik Pancholy

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Maulik Pancholy is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring roles as Sanjay on Weeds from 2005 to present, and as Jonathan on 30 Rock, which he has played since the show began in 2006.

Pancholy is of Indian heritage. His other television work includes guest roles on The Sopranos, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and The Comeback. He also has several stage acting credits in New York City including the Culture Project's production of Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom in 2004, a workshop of the play Morbidity & Mortality at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre in 2005, and the lead role in India Awaiting at the Samuel Beckett Theatre. Pancholy went to the Yale School of Drama.

[edit] Selected filmography

Phineas and Ferb (2008 - ) as Baljeet
27 Dresses (2008) as Trent
30 Rock (2006 - ) as Jonathan
Park (2006) as Babar
Weeds (2005 - ) as Sanjay
Friends with Money (2006) as Flirtatious Waiter
Hitch (2005) as Raoul

Ajay Naidu

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Ajay Naidu

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Born	12 February 1972 (1972-02-12) (age 36) Evanston, Illinois

Ajay Naidu (born 12 February 1972) is an American actor.

Naidu was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Chicago, the son of Indian immigrants to the U.S.^[1] He attended Evanston Township High School. As an actor, he trained with the American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.^[1]

On screen, Naidu has appeared in the film Office Space, as well as K-Pax, π, Requiem for a Dream, Bad Santa, The War Within, American Chai, The Guru, Waterborne and Loins of Punjab Presents. He co-starred in the sitcom LateLine and had guest starring roles on the television dramas The Sopranos and The West Wing. In 1997, Naidu was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his role in the independent film subUrbia.^[2] He is currently engaged to actress Heather Burns.^[3]

[edit] References

Parminder Nagra

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Parminder Kaur Nagra DLitt (Punjabi: ਪਰਮਿੰਦਰ ਕੌਰ ਨਾਗਰਾ) (born October 5, 1975 in Leicester, England) is an English actress of Indian descent.

Early life

Nagra was born to Sikh parents who emigrated to the UK from the Punjab region of northern India in the late 1960s. She is affectionately known as "Mindi". Her middle name, Kaur, meaning Princess, is traditionally given to Sikh women (Sikh men traditionally have the middle name Singh, which in Punjabi translates to Lion.). Her family background was working class. Her father, Sukha, a factory worker, is believed to have separated from her mother, Nashuter, a packer in a factory, when Parminder was a child. Parminder, her two younger brothers, and her younger sister were raised in a small terraced house in the Belgrave district of Leicester by her mother and stepfather, who worked as a bookkeeper at a cousin's transport company.

At the age of seven, Nagra suffered a burn that resulted in the scar shown in her 2002 breakout role in the internationally acclaimed film Bend It Like Beckham. While preparing a meal, a gas stove set her trousers alight. She was taken into the bathroom by an uncle and immersed in cold water. However, when the trouser fabric was removed, it took skin with it, resulting in a large scar on her right leg. The story was included into the film to explain the burn of Parminder's character (in the movie stating she was burned while making beans on toast).

Nagra attended Northfield House Primary School in Leicester. At her comprehensive school, Soar Valley College she played viola in the youth orchestra and also appeared in her first theatrical productions.

In 1991, at the age of 16, Nagra took a job as an usher at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre, ostensibly to watch and learn from the local talent. Her former boss recalls her as brilliant, polite, and very sweet, but also that she was quiet, giving no hints as to her future rise to stardom.

[edit] "Falling into acting"

Not long after leaving school, and only a few months after sitting her A-levels, Nagra was approached by Jez Simons, her former drama instructor, about becoming part of Hathi Productions, a leading Leicester-based British Indian theatre company, for which he served as the artistic director. She accepted and was cast as a chorus member in the 1994 musical Nimai presented at the Leicester Haymarket. Only a week into rehearsals, she was plucked from the chorus to take the place of the lead actress who had dropped out. Simons recalls that Nagra, while a good singer and actress, had an intangible quality that raised her above other actresses and that led him to select her as the new lead. Nagra sometimes describes herself as having "fallen into" acting due to this unexpected turn of events.

[edit] The London years

Before she turned twenty, Nagra left Leicester for London, forgoing university to pursue a theatrical career and her childhood dreams of becoming an actress. After selling her prized viola, she found herself living alone in Peckham, south London, employed in a stocktaking job and struggling to find theatrical work.

Nagra's first London theatrical job came in 1994 when she was cast as the Princess in Sleeping Beauty, a Christmas-time pantomime production at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Although most critics seemed rather unimpressed with the show, Nagra's performance is notable in that she was a woman of colour portraying a traditionally white character.

After Sleeping Beauty, Nagra worked with small Indian theatre companies such as Tara Arts and Tamasha. The roles marked the first of many early career opportunities in theatre that led eventually to the radio and television appearances that also defined her career throughout most of the 1990s.

In 1996, Nagra took a small part in Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon and performed at Cottesloe, Royal National Theatre. It was there that she met Irish actor Kieran Creggan, with whom she later moved into a flat in Kennington, south London. Their relationship continued for five years.

Although lacking formal theatrical training, Nagra signed with veteran London-based agent Joan Brown, after which she began to land her first television roles — a bit part on the British medical drama Casualty, where she played a girl attacked with a broken bottle, and a small role in the television movie King Girl in which Nagra portrayed an abusive member of a girls' gang.

In 1997, Nagra appeared in the three-part drama Turning World, starring Roshan Seth. The following year she appeared on Casualty for the second time.

The year 1999 saw her playing the part of a convenience store clerk in the television movie Donovan Quick, starring Colin Firth. Also of note are appearances on the British comedy shows Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No. 42.

While slowly building a reputation on British television, Nagra also dabbled in radio, with parts in, among others, radio plays written by noted author and playwright Tanika Gupta. In 1998, Nagra was part of Dancing Girls of Lahore, a radio play co-written by her future Bend It Like Beckham co-star, Shaheen Khan. In 2001, Nagra provided the voice of a Muslim girl in Arena: The Veil, a docu-drama about women who choose to wear the Muslim head scarf.

Although Nagra had cut her teeth in television and, to a lesser extent, in radio, her stage performances are perhaps the most noteworthy element in her corpus of work during her London years. Not long after Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, Nagra was cast in 1997's Oh Sweet Sita, an adaptation of Indian mythology about Rama and his dutiful wife Sita.

Starring in the title role of Sita, Nagra caught the attention of director Gurinder Chadha, who would later write the script for Bend It Like Beckham with Nagra in mind for the lead role. Although Chadha was charmed by Nagra, it would be five more years before the spectacular results of their collaboration would materialize.

Nagra's other notable stage roles during this period are many and include appearances in Skeleton (1997), with critical acclaim for her "bright-eyed vivacity" as the village girl; A Tainted Dawn (1997), playing a Hindu boy accidentally left in Pakistan and raised by a Muslim couple; Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings & A Funeral (1998), showing her skills as a romantic comedienne, also to critical acclaim; Krishna's Lila — A Play of the Asian World (1999), as part of a five-person cast in a controversially titled piece; The Square Circle (1999), tackling the demanding role of an illiterate peasant girl who becomes a rape victim; and in River on Fire (2000), as Kiran, in a retelling of Sophocles' Antigone.

Although she was fast becoming a star on the stages of London, it was 2002's surprise blockbuster Bend It Like Beckham, Nagra's first film, that turned her into an international celebrity almost overnight.

[edit] Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham was directed by Gurinder Chadha, a British film director also of Indian descent. It starred Nagra, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaheen Khan, and Keira Knightley, for whom this film was also a career breakthrough.

The small-budget picture was a critical and financial success in the United Kingdom, eventually making the leap around the world and to the United States where it earned over $30 million at the box office. The script, conceived by Chadha with her husband Paul Mayeda Berges and Guljit Bindra, was written especially with Nagra in mind. While initially indifferent to the game of football, Nagra found the football-centred story to be both funny and touching. She agreed to audition and eventually accepted the role.

In the film, Nagra plays Jesminder (Jess) Bhamra, a teenage Sikh football player who idolizes football superstar David Beckham and defies her traditional parents to pursue her dreams of playing football. The rough parallels to Nagra's (and Chadha's) own personal story are apparent. However, pulling off the role was no small feat considering that the then-26-year-old actress had never played football and was portraying a character nearly a decade younger than she was. An intensive ten-week training course of the game futsal, led by noted coach Simon Clifford, put Nagra through rigorous nine-hour-a-day workouts. The hard work paid off as Nagra learned to "bend" or curve the ball in flight, as she did in one particularly memorable backyard scene. In a nod to Nagra's actual life, director Chadha wrote and incorporated a scene about Nagra's scar into the film.

Nagra demonstrated that an unknown Indian actress could carry a hit film. For her efforts, the actress received much critical acclaim and professional accolades. Nagra became the first woman honoured as FIFA's "International Football Personality of the Year" and garnered no fewer than nine acting award nominations from various film organizations for her performance in Bend It Like Beckham.

In 2002, she was awarded the Golden Wave Award at the Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema for "best actress" and later earned a Movieline Young Hollywood Award for "best breakthrough performance."

[edit] Beyond Bend It

Not long after wrapping up shooting on Bend It, Nagra appeared in another motion picture, Miramax's fairy tale Ella Enchanted starring Anne Hathaway and co-starring Minnie Driver, Vivica A. Fox and Cary Elwes, where she was cast in the part of Areida, friend to Hathaway's title character Ella. In addition, Nagra took on two notable television roles for Channel 4—as Viola/Cesario in a multicultural version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and as Heere Sharma in the two-part Anglo-Indian drama Second Generation, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Jon Sen and was loosely based on the Bard's King Lear and starred Bollywood legend Om Puri.

Although Second Generation was a ratings flop, it was a huge critical success, earning a place in The Observer newspaper's top 10 British TV programmes of 2003. It garnered Nagra a prestigious Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy (EMMA) Award for her turn as a sexually liberated and independent-minded young Anglo-Indian woman. For the role, Nagra had to muster up the courage to do some of the steamy and passionate love scenes that she had vowed not to do as an actress. The role allowed Nagra her first opportunity to visit her ancestral homeland of India when cast members traveled to Calcutta to shoot the drama's final scenes.

[edit] Hollywood

While on a promotional junket in Los Angeles for Bend It, Nagra was informed by her agent that ER producer John Wells was interested in meeting with her.^{[citation needed]} In fact, Bend It director Gurinder Chadha claimed during a 2007 episode of BBC's Movie Connections that this meeting was her doing, because she had recommended Parminder for the role of the new Indian character in ER during a conversation with her friend Wells.^{[citation needed]}

At their initial meeting, Wells made Nagra an offer to join the ensemble cast; she accepted immediately. In recalling the moment, she said, "I had to sit still and act professional, while all the time I just wanted to jump up and run around the room screaming". Not long after the meeting, Nagra signed a one-year contract that included an option for three additional years. Despite her new status, Nagra said, "I don't think Hollywood has changed me at all. The first thing I did when I arrived was buy chapati flour and lentils".^{[citation needed]}

Nagra made her first ER appearance as County General Hospital medical intern Neela Rasgotra on September 25, 2003, in season 10's premiere episode entitled, "Now What?". This was one of the first recurring Indian doctor role on American television^{[citation needed]} (Kavi Raz was a regular cast member on St. Elsewhere). Wells adapted the character to suit Nagra, who was allowed to "keep" her own English accent in portraying the Yale-educated Anglo-Indian Neela. Nagra would go on to appear in 21 of the season's 22 episodes, including "NICU" and "The Student", episodes in which her character was a central player. Noah Wyle, on announcing his departure from the series, described Nagra as "the future"^[1] of ER, and the media has concurred, anointing her as one of the show's "golden girls".

Nagra continues to garner professional accolades and honors. In 2004, she received a Teen Choice Award nomination for her work on ER and also had the honor of being a torch bearer as the Olympic torch passed through London on its way to the Games in Athens.^[2] In 2005 she took home an Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award from the South Asian Students' Alliance. Later in the year, Nagra finished filming season 11 of ER and returned to her native Leicester to work on director Amit Gupta's Love in Little India^[3] in which she was cast as the female lead.

She was nominated for a 2006 Asian Excellence Award, in the category of Outstanding Female Television Performance, for her work in ER. She went on to win the award the following year.^[4]

Parminder Nagra was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctors of Letters by the University of Leicester on 11 July 2007.

Parminder Nagra has recently been cast in the next DC animated movie, Batman: Gotham Knight. The project is produced by Bruce Timm, who produced the Emmy-Award winning Batman: The Animated Series. Nagra will be acting alongside Batman legend Kevin Conroy, who has been voicing Batman for over 15 years. The film will be rated PG-13 like its predecessors, Superman Doomsday and Justice League: The New Frontier.

[edit] References

^ "Movie & TV News 13 September 2004". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
^ "Olympic torch travels through London". USA Today. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
^ "Projects in Development". Park enterntainment. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
^ "Winners". AZN Television - Asian Excellence Awards. Retrieved on 2008-05-0

Overview

Date of Birth:

5 October 1975, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK more

Trivia:

On 11 July 2007 she was awarded an Honorary DLitt (Doctor of Letters)... more

Awards:

2 wins & 4 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(5 articles)

Dourdan Rebounds From Drug Arrest With Batman Film (From WENN. 26 June 2008, 6:36 PM, PDT)
Radcliffe Portrait Sets National Portrait Gallery Record (From WENN. 13 April 2006)

Alternate Names:

Parminder K. Nagra

Filmography

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Marathon (2008) (announced)
"ER" .... Dr. Neela Rasgotra / ... (108 episodes, 2003-2008)
- Life After Death (2008) TV episode .... Dr. Neela Rasgotra
- The Chicago Way (2008) TV episode .... Dr. Neela Rasgotra
- Tandem Repeats (2008) TV episode .... Dr. Neela Rasgotra
- Under Pressure (2008) TV episode .... Dr. Neela Rasgotra
- Truth Will Out (2008) TV episode .... Dr. Neela Rasgotra
(103 more)
Batman: Gotham Knight (2008) (V) (voice) .... Cassandra
In Your Dreams (2007) .... Charlie
Maya the Indian Princess (2005) (voice)
Ella Enchanted (2004) .... Areida
Second Generation (2003) (TV) (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Heere Sharma/Sonali Sharma
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (2003) (TV) .... Viola
Bend It Like Beckham (2002) .... Jesminder 'Jess' Kaur Bhamra
... aka Kick It Like Beckham (Germany)
The Swap (2002) (TV) (uncredited) .... Hotel Receptionist
"Judge John Deed" .... Ishbel McDonald (1 episode, 2001)
- Exacting Justice (2001) TV episode .... Ishbel McDonald
"Holby City" .... Tina (1 episode, 2000)
... aka Holby (UK: informal short title)
- The Trouble with the Truth (2000) TV episode .... Tina
"Always and Everyone" (1999) TV series .... Sunita Verma (unknown episodes)
... aka A&E (UK)
... aka St Saviours (UK)
Donovan Quick (1999) (TV) (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Radhika
"Casualty" .... Asha Guptah / ... (2 episodes, 1996-1998)
- Next of Kin (1998) TV episode (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Asha Guptah
- Land of Hope (1996) TV episode .... Ayisha
"Goodness Gracious Me" (1998) TV series .... Various (unknown episodes)
"Turning World" .... Sabina (3 episodes, 1997)
- Episode #1.3 (1997) TV episode (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Sabina
- Episode #1.2 (1997) TV episode (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Sabina
- Episode #1.1 (1997) TV episode (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Sabina
King Girl (1996) (TV) (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Ayshe

Soundtrack:

Bend It Like Beckham (2002) ("Hot Hot Hot" (1983))
... aka Kick It Like Beckham (Germany)

Self:

"The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" .... Herself (4 episodes, 2005-2008)
- Episode dated 13 May 2008 (2008) TV episode .... Herself
- Episode dated 20 February 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Herself
- Episode #2.133 (2006) TV episode .... Herself
- Episode #2.41 (2005) TV episode .... Herself
"Movie Connections" .... Herself (1 episode, 2007)
- Bend It Like Beckham (2007) TV episode .... Herself
2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards (2007) (TV) .... Herself
"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" .... Herself (1 episode, 2006)
- Episode dated 8 December 2006 (2006) TV episode .... Herself
"The Megan Mullally Show" .... Herself (1 episode, 2006)
- Episode #1.36 (2006) TV episode .... Herself
2006 Asian Excellence Awards (2006) (TV) .... Presenter/Nominee
"The View" .... Herself (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
- Episode dated 9 December 2004 (2004) TV episode .... Herself
- Episode dated 8 April 2003 (2003) TV episode (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Herself
The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2004) (TV) .... Herself
Ella Enchanted: A Red Carpet Premiere Special (2004) (TV) (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Interviewee
"21st Century Bard: The Making of Twelfth Night" (2003) TV series (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Herself/Viola
"The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" .... Herself (1 episode, 2003)
... aka The Late Late Show (USA: short title)
- Episode dated 18 September 2003 (2003) TV episode (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Herself
Foot fait son cinéma, Le (2003) (TV) (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Herself
She Shoots, She Scores: The Making of 'Bend It Like Beckham' (2003) (V) (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Herself
"GMTV" .... Herself (1 episode, 2002)
- Episode dated 11 April 2002 (2002) TV episode (as Parminder K. Nagra) .... Herself

Vera Chokalingam (known professionally as Mindy Kaling

2008-08-29T08:22:00.000-07:00

, born June 24, 1979) is an American actress and writer who stars as Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office. Kaling is also a producer and writer of several of the show's episodes.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Kaling was born Vera Chokalingam^[1]^[2] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of Indian descent.^[3] She graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997. The following year, she began attending Dartmouth College, where she was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe "The Dog Day Players" and the a cappella group "The Rockapellas", as well as the creator of the comic strip in The Dartmouth college newspaper titled "Badly Drawn Girl". She graduated in 2001.^[4] In 2003, she portrayed Ben Affleck in a play entitled "Matt & Ben", which she also co-wrote. The play was named one of Time magazine's "Top Ten Theatrical Events of The Year".

[edit] Career

In early 2004, she was hired as a writer and performer for the American version of The Office. She has written several episodes for the series. Originally, executive producer Greg Daniels wasn't sure where to use her onscreen in the series, until the point in the episode "Diversity Day" where Steve Carell's insensitive character Michael Scott needed to be slapped by a minority. In a 2007 interview with The A.V. Club, Kaling stated that the Kelly character is "an exaggerated version of what I think the upper-level writers believe my personality is." ^[5] After the "Diwali" episode, Kaling appeared with Daniels on NPR's Fresh Air. Kaling played Richard Lewis's assistant in a 2005 episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", and in April 2006 she was a guest writer for one episode of Saturday Night Live. Kaling's first film role was in The 40 Year-Old Virgin. She subsequently appeared in the 2007 romantic comedy License to Wed. In 2007, her standup comedy was featured on the CD Comedy Death-Ray.

[edit] Personal life

As of April 2008, Kaling is dating author Benjamin Nugent.^[6]

[edit] Episodes of The Office written by Kaling

"Hot Girl" (April 26, 2005)
"The Dundies" (September 20, 2005)
"The Injury" (January 12, 2006)
"Take Your Daughter to Work Day" (March 16, 2006)
"Diwali" (November 2, 2006)
"Ben Franklin" (February 1, 2007)
"Branch Wars" (November 1, 2007)
"Night Out" (April 24, 2008)

[edit] References

^ Online list of 2001 Dartmouth grads, TheDartmouth.com
^ Heather Kofke-Egger. March 5, 1999. Chokalingham '01: comedy is a way of life, TheDartmouth.com
^ Happy Diwali From 'The Office':Mindy Kaling takes center stage in episode about Hindu festival Zap2it, retrieved February 5, 2008
^ Swiss, Zach. May 23, 2006. Kaling '01 embarks on acting, writing career for 'The Office', TheDartmouth.com
^ The A.V. Club, retrieved February 5, 2008

Overview

Date of Birth:

24 June 1979, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA more

Trivia:

She wrote a comic strip called "Badly Drawn Girl" for her college newspaper... more

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(2 articles)

'The Departed' and 'Little Miss Sunshine' Win Top Writers Guild Awards (From WENN. 13 February 2007)
Damon and Affleck Play Attracts Kidman (From WENN. 5 September 2003)

Filmography

Jump to filmography as: Actress, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Writer, Soundtrack, Self

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Actress:

"The Office" .... Kelly Kapoor (63 episodes, 2005-2008)
... aka The Office: US Version (Australia)
- Weight Loss (2008) TV episode .... Kelly Kapoor
- Goodbye, Toby (2008) TV episode .... Kelly Kapoor
- Job Fair (2008) TV episode .... Kelly Kapoor
- Did I Stutter? (2008) TV episode .... Kelly Kapoor
- Night Out (2008) TV episode .... Kelly Kapoor
(58 more)
License to Wed (2007) .... Shelly
2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards (2007) (TV)
Unaccompanied Minors (2006) .... Restaurant Hostess
... aka Grounded (UK)
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" .... Richard Lewis's Assistant (1 episode, 2005)
- Lewis Needs a Kidney (2005) TV episode .... Richard Lewis's Assistant
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) .... Amy
... aka The 40 Year-Old Virgin (USA: poster title)
... aka The 40-Year-Old Virgin (USA: DVD box title)

Producer:

"The Office" (producer) (25 episodes, 2006-2008)
... aka The Office: US Version (Australia)
- Goodbye, Toby (2008) TV episode (producer)
- Job Fair (2008) TV episode (producer)
- Did I Stutter? (2008) TV episode (producer)
- Night Out (2008) TV episode (producer)
- Chair Model (2008) TV episode (producer)
(20 more)
Mindy and Brenda (2006) (TV) (producer)

Miscellaneous Crew:

2000s
1990s

"The Office" (story editor) (16 episodes, 2005-2006)
... aka The Office: US Version (Australia)
- Conflict Resolution (2006) TV episode (story editor)
- Drug Testing (2006) TV episode (story editor)
- The Carpet (2006) TV episode (story editor)
- The Secret (2006) TV episode (story editor)
- The Injury (2006) TV episode (story editor)
(11 more)
"Crossing Over with John Edward" (1999) TV series (production assistant) (unknown episodes)

Writer:

"The Office" (12 episodes, 2005-2008)
... aka The Office: US Version (Australia)
- Night Out (2008) TV episode (written by)
- Branch Wars (2007) TV episode (writer)
- Ben Franklin (2007) TV episode (writer)
- Diwali (2006) TV episode (writer)
- Take Your Daughter to Work Day (2006) TV episode (written by)
(7 more)
Mindy and Brenda (2006) (TV) (writer)

Soundtrack:

"The Office" (4 episodes, 2006-2007)
... aka The Office: US Version (Australia)
- The Deposition (2007) TV episode (performer: "Girlfriend")
- Beach Games (2007) TV episode (performer: "The Gambler", "Meet the Flintstones")
- Product Recall (2007) TV episode (performer: "Hollabck Girl")
- A Benihana Christmas (2006) TV episode (performer: "We Belong")

Self:

"Late Show with David Letterman" .... Herself (1 episode, 2008)
... aka Late Show Backstage (USA: title for episodes with guest hosts)
... aka Letterman (Australia)
... aka The Late Show (USA: informal short title)
- Episode dated 31 July 2008 (2008) TV episode .... Herself
"Late Night with Conan O'Brien" .... Herself (1 episode, 2007)
... aka Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Australia)
- Episode dated 5 February 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Herself

Sarita Choudhury- desi Actress:

2008-08-29T08:15:00.000-07:00

Sarita Choudhury (birth name: Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury) (born August 18, 1966 in Blackheath, London, England) is a British-born actress of half Indian (Bengali) and half English descent. Her parents, Prabhas Chandra Choudhury, a scientist and Julia Patricia Spring, married in 1964 in Lucea, Jamaica. She studied Economics and film at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

She is best known for her roles in the Mira Nair-directed feature films Mississippi Masala (1992), The Perez Family (1995) and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996).

After her debut film Mississippi Masala became an art house hit, Sarita Choudhury acted as a Pakistani country-western singer in Wild West, a Chilean maid who is raped in Bille August's adaptation of The House of the Spirits, and a lesbian mother in Fresh Kill.

By the late 1990s, Choudhury added to her repertoire with supporting roles in the glossy Hitchcock remake, A Perfect Murder and the John Cassavetes retread Gloria. She also played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's She Hate Me and acted as Anna Ran in Lady in the Water, a 2006 thriller/fantasy film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

[edit] Radio

Recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's 'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign, encouraging reading about Bob Marley.

[edit] Television

Appeared on Homicide: Life on the Streets for 5 episodes during the 1998-1999 season as Dr. Kalyani, a Medical Examiner.

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Additional Details

Other Works:

(April 1998): Played Hero in "Much Ado About Nothing" play by William Shakespeare (Brooklyn Academy of Music Majestic Theatre, New York City, USA)

Overview

Date of Birth:

18 August 1966, London, England, UK more

Mini Biography:

After her debut film Mississippi Masala (1991) became an art house hit, Sarita Choudhury... more

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2000s
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Good Ol' Boy (2009) (pre-production) .... Nina
The Accidental Husband (2008) .... Sunny
Woman in Burka (2008) .... Sarita
"Kings" (2008) TV series .... Helen
"Damages" .... Sleep Therapist (1 episode, 2007)
- She Spat at Me (2007) TV episode .... Sleep Therapist
Lady in a Box (2006) .... Ms. Pullman
Lady in the Water (2006) .... Anna Ran
For Real (2006) .... Priya Singh
Est de la brúixola, L' (2005)
... aka East on the Compass (USA: literal English title)
... aka Este de la brújula, El (Spain: Castilian title)
The War Within (2005) .... Farida S. Choudhury
Indocumentados (2005) .... Mrs. Guerrero
The Breakup Artist (2004) .... Mona
"PBS Hollywood Presents" .... Charmaine (1 episode, 2004)
- Cop Shop (2004) TV episode .... Charmaine
"Law & Order" .... Nadira Harrington (1 episode, 2004)
... aka Law & Order Prime (USA: informal title)
- Paradigm (2004) TV episode .... Nadira Harrington
She Hate Me (2004) .... Song
Marmalade (2004) .... Angelica
Exactly (2004) .... Lily
It Runs in the Family (2003) .... Suzie
... aka Family Business (UK: TV title)
Rhythm of the Saints (2003) .... Mariela
Just a Kiss (2002) .... Colleen
"100 Centre Street" .... Julia Brooks (8 episodes, 2001-2002)
- Hurricane Paul (2002) TV episode .... Julia Brooks
- Zero Tolerance (2002) TV episode .... Julia Brooks
- End of the Month (2002) TV episode .... Julia Brooks
- Daughters (2001) TV episode .... Julia Brooks
- Queenie's Tough (2001) TV episode .... Julia Brooks
(3 more)
Refuge (2002) .... Girl
Trigger Happy (2001) .... Alison
"Deadline" .... Sahira Ondaatje (3 episodes, 2000-2001)
- Red Herring (2001) TV episode .... Sahira Ondaatje
- Just Lie Back (2001) TV episode .... Sahira Ondaatje
- Howl (2000) TV episode .... Sahira Ondaatje
3 A.M. (2001) .... Box
Come On (2000) .... Sarita
"Homicide: Life on the Street" .... Dr. Kalyani (5 episodes, 1998-1999)
... aka Homicide (USA: informal short title)
- The Why Chromosome (1999) TV episode .... Dr. Kalyani
- Identity Crisis (1999) TV episode .... Dr. Kalyani
- A Case of Do or Die (1999) TV episode .... Dr. Kalyani
- The Same Coin (1999) TV episode .... Dr. Kalyani
- Kellerman, P.I.: Part 2 (1998) TV episode .... Dr. Kalyani
Gloria (1999) .... Angela
Restless (1998) .... Jane Talwani
A Perfect Murder (1998) .... Raquel Martinez
High Art (1998) (uncredited) .... Joan
... aka Art interdit, L' (Canada: French title: TV title)
Story of the Red Rose (1998) .... Infanta
SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997) (TV) .... Humera (segment "Honey-Getter")
... aka Subway (UK: DVD box title)
Dinner Party (1997) .... Rosie
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) .... Tara, the Queen
Down Came a Blackbird (1995) (TV) .... Myrna
... aka Ramirez
The Perez Family (1995) .... Josette
Fresh Kill (1994) .... Shareen Lightfoot
The House of the Spirits (1993) .... Pancha García
... aka Åndernes hus (Denmark)
... aka A Casa dos Espíritos (Portugal)
... aka Geisterhaus, Das (Germany)
Wild West (1992) .... Rifat
Mississippi Masala (1991) .... Meena

Thanks:

2000s
1990s

Passengers (2002/I) (thanks)
Life and Debt (2001) (special thanks)
Chutney Popcorn (1999) (thanks)
High Art (1998) (special thanks)
... aka Art interdit, L' (Canada: French title: TV title)

Self:

2000s
1990s

Reflections of Lady in the Water (2006) (V)
"Wild Life Adventures" .... Herself (1 episode, 1997)
- Tiger (1997) TV episode .... Herself
Tiger! (1997) .... Sarita

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