Successful Indians Abroad

Indo-Canadian Lilly Singh has over 5.7 million subscribers on YouTube Channel Superwoman. She was born in Ontario, Canada and grew up as a tomboy before turning into a YouTube star. Singh also sells clothes under her brand name Unicorn Island.

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American-Indian Kal Penn is an actor-turned-civil servant, who is a member of Obama's National Arts Policy Committee. He is also visiting faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Penn has acted in several movies and television series before joining politics.

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Vidia Naipaul known as V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, his family believed to be descendants of Hindu Brahmins. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1990.

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Delhi-born Vinod Khosla has based his business in Menlo Park, California. He has invested in an Indian SKS Microfinance that lends small loans to poor women in rural India. Khosla was the guest-editor of The Economic Times’s special issue.

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India-born American banker Vikram Pandit from Nagpur is a former chief executive of Citigroup. He is a member of the boards of Columbia University, Columbia Business School, the Indian School of Business and Trinity School. Pandit has collaborated with Freakonomics book series to help companies improve their cultures and use of technology. He was also awarded Padma Bhushan for Trade and Industry in 2008.

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