The Ellis Island Awards

The Ellis Island Medal of Honor was established to pay tribute to the achievements of  various ancestry groups that comprise America's cultural mosaic, their website reports.

This year, six American-Indians were among the awardees. Jatin P Shah, Kiran Desai, Sant Singh Chatwal, Shiv C Dass, Uma Mysorekar and Joseph J Thomas won the award this year.

 

 

Sant Singh Chatwal - Chairman & CEO, Hampshire Hotels & Resorts was awarded a medal. Chatwal is a Sikh American Businessman who owns the 'Bombay Palace' chain of restaurants.

Jatin P Shah is the chair of head and neck service in the Department of Surgery at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre.

Shiv C Dass is the Chairman of the Jackson Heights Merchants Association in New York.

Doctor Joseph J Thomas , a dentist from Pennysylvania was awarded the medal.

Doctor Uma Mysorekar, President of the Hindu Temple Society of North America was awarded a medal. Mysorekar was one of the six religious leaders invited to President Obama's National Prayer Service.

Kiran Desai is accountant and tax consultant.