Manoj Bhargava

Manoj Bhargava, the person behind the Multi-Billion Dollar Brand, 5-hour ENERGY claims to be the richest Indian in America, according to a Forbes report. Bhargava’s stake in the company is estimated to be more than $3 billion and it took just 8 years for Bhargava to take his company and brand towards success and conquer the market with nearly 90 percent shares. The most interesting part is that this wealthiest man and his brand didn’t get much attention from media and leading competitors such as Red Bull and Monster until recently.

Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris is the current attorney General of California who was featured as one of ‘America’s 20 Most Powerful Women’, by Newsweek. Prior to this, she served as the District Attorney of San Francisco for six years, from 2004 to 2010.

She is the first female to be elected as the attorney general of California and the first Asian-American to serve this prestigious post .

Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay Gupta the chief medical correspondent for CNN is best known to the media world as the multiple Emmy-award winner. Apart from playing a vital role in CNN’s reporting on health and medical news, Gupta is a practicing neurosurgeon. The journalistic world has full praise for this talented guy for his extraordinary skill to combine medicine, journalism and fiction-writing with maximum dedication and hard work.

Manoj Shyamalan

Shyamalan is one of the most successful Indian-born American director, screen writer and producer. His ‘Sixth Sense’, a psychological thriller movie made him one of the most sought after directors in Hollywood, for which he was even nominated for the Oscars. He is known for directing movies with contemporary mystic plots and ending it with an ironic wound, leaving the viewers to spin around by the end of the movie.

Kiran Desai

Kiran is the daughter of famous writer Anita Desai who happens to be the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize at the age of 35 for her novel ‘Inheritance of Loss’. She admits that her mother’s works played a significant role in her writings and winning the award was almost a ‘family endeavor’. “I wrote this book so much in her company it feels almost like her book’’, she told the BBC. According to the Booker judges, ‘The Inheritance of Loss’ is a “magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness.