Saturday, February 24, 2018

Desis increasing prominence in American government and corporations


Desi is a loose term for the people, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent or South Asia and their diaspora, derived from the Ancient Sanskrit देश ...




Google CEO Sundar Pichai.





Who is Ajit Pai FCC Chairman




Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah heads back into the White House after briefly talking to reporters about the ongoing partial federal government shutdown. Reports have emerged that the Indian American Republican strategist once called President Donald Trump “a deplorable” during the 2016 presidential cycle, when he was working for the Republican National Committee. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)






January 20, 1964 (age 54)
Mumbai, India
Citizenship United States[1]
Education Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, India
Alma mater Yale University
Harvard University
Occupation Journalist, author
Notable credit(s) Fareed Zakaria GPS, host (2008–present)
Time magazine, contributing editor (2010–2014)
Newsweek International, editor (2000–2010)
Foreign Exchange, host (2005–2007)
Foreign Affairs, former managing editor
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Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (/fəˈriːd zəˈkɑːriə/; born January 20, 1964) is an American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time.[3] 


Neel Kashkari

Banker



Neel Tushar Kashkari is an Indian American banker and politician who is President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. As interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability from October 2008 to May 2009, he oversaw the Troubled As…

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Born: Jul 30, 1973 (age 44) · Akron, OH
Office: President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Since 2016)
Education: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania · University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign · University of Pennsylvania




    Nikki Haley

    United States Ambassador to the United Nations


    Nimrata "Nikki" Haley is the 29th and current United States Ambassador to the United Nations. She served as the 116th governor of South Carolina and is a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Haley was the first female governor of South Carolina and the second Indian-American, after fellow Republican Bobby Jindal, to serve as a …



    Bobby Jindal (Piyush Jindal) ex-Governor of Louisiana.


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    Just wondering...  How did this happen all of the sudden? 

    There must be a purpose and an agenda associated to this recent spontaneous escalation.


    Arsenio 


    P.S.

    Forgot one!





    About Hari

    Hari Sreenivasan joined the PBS NewsHour in 2009. He is the Anchor of PBS NewsHour Weekend and a Senior Correspondent for the nightly program.

    Prior to joining NewsHour, he was at CBS News, reporting for the "CBS Evening News,” "The Early Show" and "CBS Sunday Morning." Before that, he served as an anchor and correspondent for ABC News, working extensively on the network's 24-hour digital service "ABC News Now." Sreenivasan also reported for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," "Nightline with Ted Koppel," and anchored the overnight program “World News Now.”

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