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glOBal indians of 2020

Kamala Devi Harris neera tanden Rishi Sunak Raja Chari Tanay Manjrekar

Priyanca Radhakrishna Dr. Ankit Bharat priti patel sundar pichai Gitanjali Rao sonia syngal

neeraJ dhar Maya and me the importance of she was raised by a single moth- fuses to budge till he gets his way.

San Francisco hard work and to believe in our er who was on welfare for over He has been praised for his work
power to right what is wrong.” In two years thereafter. Tanden has as the Chancellor even during the
rom the US to New Zea- her winning speech, she vowed: previously said she is a living ex- tough times during the Covid1-9
land, people of Indian “While I may be the first woman ample of someone who has been pandemic.
Forigin made name for in this office, I will not be the last, helped by government schemes. raJa CharI
their achievements in politics, because every little girl watching
business, science, tech and cul- tonight sees that this is a country rIshI sunak Indian-American US Air
ture. We look at some top names of possibilities”. For the first time in British Force colonel Raja Chari is one
of the astronauts selected to form
which made headlines across the politics, the year saw an Indian or- NASA’s Artemis Team for the
world in the year 2020 neera tanden igin appointed to the top cabinet ambitious manned mission to the
The Indian-American has position. Rishi Sunak was named
kamaLa devI harrIs been nominated as Director in as the Chancellor after Prime moon and beyond. Raja was se-
Kamala Harris has made his- the White House responsible for Minister Boris Johnson formed lected by NASA to join the 2017
tory as the first woman, the first managing Joe Biden’s admin- his government after a resound- Astronaut Candidate Class. He
reported for duty in August and
Indian American and the first istration’s budget. Tanden has ing victory in the December 2019 having completed the initial as-
Black woman to become Vice been is Hillary Clinton’s former elections. Sunak’s wife Akshata tronaut candidate training is now
President of the United States. aide and worked with her during Murthy is the daughter of Infosys eligible for a mission assignment.
After the victory of Biden-Har- Clinton’s first presidential cam- co-founder NR Narayan Murthy.
ris ticket in the American pres- paign in 2008. If approved by Sunak mostly shuns the limelight The Iowa native graduated
idential election on November the Senate, she will be respon- and prefers to let his work do the from the U.S. Air Force Acad-
3, 2020, Harris remembered sible for managing the Biden talking. Sunak has had a meteor- emy in 1999 with bachelor’s de-
grees in Astronautical Engineer-
her mother Shyamala Gopalan administration’s budget. On ic rise in Britain’s political circles ing and Engineering Science.
Harris, who came to the US at her Twitter profile, Tanden de- under Boris Johnson. In fact, he Chari served as the commander
the age of 19 to pursue higher scribes herself as, “President of has emerged as strong number of the 461st Flight Test Squadron
medical studies. “My mother, @amprog-Center for American 2 in Britain after Prime Minister
Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was Progress, liberal, Indian Amer- Johnson. The only time Sunak and the director of the F-35 Inte-
a force of nature and the great- ican, feminist, mom, wife. Not has been in the news is when he grated Test Force at Edwards Air
est inspiration on my life,” Har- in that order.” Tanden’s parents takes a strong stance on certain Force Base (AFB) in California.
ris said. “She taught my sister divorced when she was five and aspects of the policy and he re- Continued on next page... >>

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