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Meet the winners of India Abroad awards 2010
Let's meet the illustrious winners of India Abroad awards 2010
Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, right, after presenting the India Abroad Person of the Year 2010 Award to Professor Ajit Randhawa and Raj Randhawa, second and third from right, who accepted the Award on their daughter Nikki Haley's behalf.
Also in the picture: Brad Hardy of Wells Fargo, one of the sponsors of the event.
Nikki Haley, the first woman and Indian-American Governor of South Carolina, and the India Abroad Person of the Year 2010, could not attend the event as she was away in Europe.
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Ambassador Meera Shankar with Strobe Talbott.
Talbott was honoured with the Award for his work in laying the foundation for a better India-US relationship after the nuclear tests of 1998.
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India Abroad Publisher Ajit Balakrishnan, left, after presenting the India Abroad Publisher's Award for Special Achievement to Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, centre, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction this year for his book, The Emperor of All Maladies.
Also in the picture: Neil Simon, President, University of Antigua, one of the event's sponsors.
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India Abroad Publisher Ajit Balakrishnan, left, after presenting the India Abroad Publisher's Award for Special Achievement to jazz pianist Dr Vijay Iyer, centre, who was nominated for the Grammy Award last year. Critics raved over Iyer's album Historicity.
Also in the picture: Neil Simon, President, University of Antigua.
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India Abroad Publisher Ajit Balakrishnan, right, after presenting the India Abroad Publisher's Award for Special Achievement to Dr Sheena Iyengar, centre, who wrote The Art of Choosing and is a world renowned expert on Choice.
Dr Iyengar, who is blind, is the S T Lee Professor at the Columbia University Business School.
Also in the picture: Neil Simon, President, University of Antigua.
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Kathleen Shea, VP Sales & Marketing, The Pierre, one of the event's sponsors, astrophysicist Dr Priyamvada Natarajan, FourSquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai and mathematician Dr Manjul Bhargava, after the presentation of the India Abroad Face of the Future Award.
Dr Bhargava, one of the world's finest mathematicians and the second-youngest full professor at Princeton University, won the first Face of the Future Award in 2008.
Dr Natarajan, who has just discovered a family of the youngest black holes, win the second Face of the Future Award in 2009.
Selvadurai, who is worth an estimated $80 million, is one of the pioneers in social media with his FourSquare site.
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From left, Sarah Khan, Tiloma Jaisinghe, Debjani Roy, Vijay Balse, Dr Rambha Radhakrishnan, Shamita Das Dasgupta, Sheena Iyengar, Raj Randhawa, Professor Ajit Randhawa, Vijay Iyer, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Strobe Talbott, Madhur Jaffrey.
Front row, from left, Anamika Veeramani, Naveen Selvadurai, Aadith Moorthy
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Dr Prasad Srinivasan, right, after presenting a citation hailing India Abroad for its 40 years of coverage of the Indian-American community from the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature, to India Abroad Publisher Ajit Balakrishnan.
Dr Srinivasan is the first Indian-American member of the Connecticut legislature