Tuesday, 25 June 2013

INDIA ABROAD PERSON OF THE YEAR


India Abroad is a weekly newspaper published from New York City, which focuses on Indian news meant for an Indian American, Indian diaspora and expatriate audience. The publication is known for its annual award ceremony for the "India Abroad Person of the Year."
India Abroad was founded by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju in 1970. India Abroad calls itself "the oldest Indian newspaper published in North America. The Economist, a British weekly international affairs magazine, referred to India Abroad as a daily publication of “unusually high quality”.
Since 2002, the publication has been honoring Indian-American achievers at the annual India Abroad Person of the Year award ceremony. The following are the list of winners.
Year


2002
politician
2003
founder, Indicorps
2004
Olympic gymnast and silver medalist
2005
politician
2006
CEO, PepsiCo
2007
filmmaker
2008
journalist, author, and television host
2009
scientist, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for 2009
2010
politician
2011
United States Attorney
2012
Ami Bera
US Congressman
Raj Shah
USAID Administrator

     Amerish B. "Ami" Bera is an American physician who has been the U.S. Representative for California's 7th congressional district since 2013. He is the Indian American to be elected to the US congress. Bera was hounersed Indian Abroad Person of the year 2012 along with Rajiv “Raj” Shah (born March 9, 1973) is an American economic development specialist and physician who is currently the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

       Legal Activist and the youngest daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Amrit Singh received the India abroad publisher’s special award for excellence 2012. Amrit is senior legal officer for national security and counterterrorism at the Open Society Justice Initiative based at the New York. Amrit Singh was given the award at the event organized by India Abroad on 21 June 2013 for her report Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Torture and Extraordinary Rendition released in February 2013.
The report stated that 54 nations comprising Pakistan helped the US in its war against al-Qaida by hosting CIA prisons on their territories and detaining, interrogating and torturing terror suspects



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