* 1971 – Kiran Desai, Indian-American author

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; Urdu: ; born January 20, 1964 ) is an Indian-American journalist and author.

Asra Quratulain Nomani ( born 1965 ) is an Indian-American journalist, author, and feminist, known as an activist involved in the Muslim reform and Islamic feminist movements.

Lahiri later wrote, " When I first started writing I was not conscious that my subject was the Indian-American experience.

In contrast to depictions of resistance to Indian culture found in several of the stories in Lahiri ’ s collection, " The Third And Final Continent " portrays a relatively positive story of the Indian-American experience.

In the Democratic Primary for Congress on September 14, 2010, Maloney defeated a well-funded opponent, Reshma Saujani, a 34-year-old Indian-American hedge fund lawyer, by a landslide, 62-percentage point margin, racking up more than 81 % of the vote to Saujani's 19 percent.

The story follows Leela's acclimation to her new surroundings and particularly her relationship with one of her students there, Kris ( Mhatre ), a young Indian-American man.

Muslim Indian-American writer Asra Nomani wrote of her own struggles with clothing restrictions based on awrah as she attended school and college, and after.

Concerts have included performances by popular contemporary musicians such as REM, folk musician Laura Marling as part of her ‘ church tour ’, as well as collegiate Indian-American music group Penn Masala.

The organization began operating in 1999 and then was formally registered as a 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit in 2002 with a founding board of Dr. Olubayi Olubayi from Kenya ; Mr. Denniston Bonadie from St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean ; Ms. Diana Dade, Dr. Thelma Tate and Ms. Sivan Yosef from New Jersey, USA ; Dr. Edward Ramsamy, originally from South Africa ; Dr. Emeka Akaezuwa from Nigeria ; Ms. Kavitha Ramachandran, an Indian-American ; and Mr. Wendel Thomas, from St. Croix and Dominica in the Caribbean ( New Jersey Gov't: New Jersey Business Gateway Service ).

* The Alien ( film ), an incomplete 1960s Indian-American film

* Danny Bravo ( born 1948 ), Indian-American child actor

* Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ( 1910 – 1995 ), British Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate in physics.

The movie opens with Saravanan ( Rajinikanth ), an Indian-American psychiatrist coming to India on vacation.

* Mira Nair ( born 1957 ), Indian-American Academy Award-nominated director

There are many clubs dedicated to different languages and cultures, such as the Spanish and Latino Students ' Association ( SALSA ), Asian Pacific American Club ( APAC ), Indian-American Student Association ( IASA ), Muslim Student Association ( MSA ), Arab Student Association, Gay-Straight Alliance ( GSA ), Secular Student Alliance, and the Diversity Council.

His roommates include Ajay ( Kal Penn ), a Punjabi idolizing desi ; Jagjit, who loves art but studies engineering to please his father ; and Salim, who is very traditional and conservative, feeling that Indian-American girls are too Westernized to make good wives.

Kalpana Chawla ( July 1, 1961 – February 1, 2003 ) was an Indian-American astronaut who, was a mission specialist on the space shuttle Columbia.

Major holidays such as Diwali, Holi / Phagwah, Eid, and Christmas are celebrated on a modest scale with a distinct flavor unique to the Caribbean, often contrasting with the Indian-American community.

* 1961 – Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

** Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

It was named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Indian-American astrophysicist who predicted it in 1930.

Finally, from 2009 until his death, Forstmann was known to be dating Padma Lakshmi, the 38 year old Indian-American host and judge of Top Chef.

Hubert Henry Harrison ( April 27, 1883-December 17, 1927 ) was a West Indian-American writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical socialist political activist based in Harlem, New York.

Allen's poll numbers had plummeted after a video was released of Allen taunting an Indian-American student at a rally with what were interpreted as racially charged remarks.

* 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, screenwriter, and producer

* 1940 – S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician

* 1849 – Maurice Barrymore, Indian-American actor ( d. 1905 )

** Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor ( b. 1924 )

Indian-American actor Satya Bhabha will play the role of Saleem Sinai while other roles will be played by Shriya Saran, Seema Biswas, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Siddharth Narayan, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Shahana Goswami, Anita Majumdar and Darsheel Safary.

* Clay Tandoori-Clay Tandori is an Indian-American V. I. L. E.

Lov Kumar Grover ( born 1961, Meerut ) is an Indian-American computer scientist.

According to the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association, over 3. 5 million people participate in the colorful parade each year.

Zinta played the role of Naina Catherine Kapur, an insecure and angry young Indian-American woman who falls in love with a man who has a fatal heart disease.

* Kal Penn as Kumar Patel, a second generation Indian-American whose family thinks that he will become a doctor like his father and brother.

Jhumpa Lahiri (; born on July 11, 1967 ) is an Indian American author.

Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999.

The Namesake ( 2003 ) is the second book by author Jhumpa Lahiri.

This corresponds to a separation of c. 1700 years, when the vernal equinox was approximately at the center of the constellation Pisces and the tropical zodiac coincided with the sidereal one ( around 290 AD, or at 23. 86 ° as of 2000 according to N. C. Lahiri, renowned author of Lahiri's Ephemeris published from kolkata, India.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

In 1980, Anthony Burgess, author of Earthly Powers, refused to attend the ceremony unless it was confirmed to him in advance whether he had won.

Andrew Lo asserts that Zhou Mi meant dominoes when referring to pupai, since the Ming author Lu Rong ( 1436 – 1494 ) explicitly defined pupai as dominoes ( in regards to a story of a suitor who won a maiden's hand by drawing out four winning pupai from a set ).

Thomas Hunt Morgan ( September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945 ) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.

* Nick Cook ( Nicholas Julian Cook, b. September 2, 1959 ) is a British aviation journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction works and has won four Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society.

The author of the play, Reinhardt's friend and confidant Karl Vollmoeller, won the French director Michel-Antoine Carré to finish the shooting.

" In 2008, the novel, along with Ender's Shadow, won the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors an author and specific works by that author for lifetime contribution to young adult literature.

The Christian ships that won the Battle of Lepanto ( 1571 ) left from Messina: the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who took part in the battle, recovered for some time in the Grand Hospital.

Miguel Sánchez, the author of the first Spanish language apparition account, identified Guadalupe as Revelation's Woman of the Apocalypse, and said: this New World has been won and conquered by the hand of the Virgin Mary ... had prepared, disposed, and contrived her exquisite likeness in this her Mexican land, which was conquered for such a glorious purpose, won that there should appear so Mexican an image.

Although the award may only be given to an author once, Romain Gary won it twice, in 1956 for Les racines du ciel and again under the pseudonym Émile Ajar in 1975 for La vie devant soi.

Fisher has also been named, though without any real proof, as the true author of the royal treatise against Martin Luther entitled " Assertio septem sacramentorum " ( The Defense of the Seven Sacraments ), published in 1521, which won for King Henry VIII the title " Fidei Defensor " ( Defender of the Faith ).

He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice ( under his own name and under a pseudonym ).

An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.

* Tom Eyen-American experimental playwright, lyricist, and theatre director, author of Dreamgirls for which he won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

In 1595 he had a great trial of skill with one Daniel Johnson, for a golden pen valued at £ 20, and won it ; and a contemporary author further relates that he had also the arms of calligraphy given him, which are azure, a pen or.

Palmerston's policy was triumphant, and the author of it had won a reputation as one of the most powerful statesmen of the age.

The questions were raised in particular by Orazio Marucchi, whose conclusions won the support of Johann Peter Kirsch, an archaeologist and ecclesiastical historian who is the author of the article on Philomena in the Catholic Encyclopedia, an article that has won the support of the historian William Carroll ; but according to Mark Miravalle the conclusions have been rejected by others.

Australian author Margaret Wild has written more than 40 books since 1984 and won several awards.

One author called it ' the first lifetime achievement award ' ( despite the fact Charlie Chaplin had won something similar the year before ).

In 1959, he won the Pulitzer Prize again for a cartoon depicting Doctor Zhivago author Boris Pasternak in a Soviet GULAG with the caption " I won the Nobel Prize for literature.

The international response to the film which among other awards won the jury's special prize at Cannes in 1957 reconfirmed the author ' high rank and proved that The Seventh Seal regardless of its degree of accuracy in reproducing medieval scenery may be considered as a universal, timeless allegory.