Washington, July 19, 2005
UNI
The guest list to the White House banquet held
in honour of visiting Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh last night reads like a who's
who of the large Indian American community here.
Prominent among those present at the banquet
included the lone NRI, Indian American Congressman
Bobby Jindal (R-Louisiana) and NRI Dr Rajwant
Singh of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education
(SCORE) -- who was the only one representing
the Sikh community in the US - and NRI Ms Sunita
Lyn Willians, the NASA astronaut mission specialist.
Some prominent Congressmen, Senators and top
Bush administration officials besides members
of the Indian delegation were also invited.
Among the leading industrialists from India
were Ratan Tata, Chairman Tata Sons, Mukesh
Ambani, Group Chairman, Reliance Industries
and Nandan Nilekani, President and CEO, Infosys
Technologies, all of whom constitute the newly-formed
CEO Forum to promote business and economic relations
between India and the US.
The other leading businessmen and top professionals
in the list were: Indira Nooyi, President and
CfO of PepsiCo., Inc, Dr Amar Bose, CEO of the
Bose Corporation, Vishakha Desai, President
of Asia Society, Dr Praveen Chaudhari, Director
of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Narendra
Reddy of the Sterling Realty Services, Radiologist
Dr. Srini Malini, Dr Shabbir Hashim of the Westgate
Dental Arts, Farooq Kothwari, Chairman and CEO
of Ethan Allen inc, Dr. Sharad Lakhanpal, Rheumatology
and past president of the American Association
of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), Dr Ravindra
Desai, ENT Surgeon, St. Louis, Missouri, Dr
Durga Aggarwal, President, Piping Technology
and Products, B N Bahadur, CEO, BBK Ltd., Dr
Zach Zachariah and his son, Raj Vattikuti, CEO
of Covansys Corporation, Dr Raghavendra Vijanagar,
Senior Partner, Gulf to Bay Cardiovascular Surgical
Associates and Mrs Subha Berry, First Vice President,
Merrill Lynch, Multicultural and Diversified
Business.
Among the US senators and congressmen were:
Richard G. Lugar (R/Indiana), Rep. Frank Pallone
(R-NJ), founder-president of the Congressional
Caucus on India and Indian Americans, Sen. Sam
Brownback (R-Kansas), Sen. Diane Feinsten, (D-California)
and Rep.
Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
Among the journalists present at the banquet
were David Brooks, Columnist from the New York
Times and Raghbir Goyal of India Globe, an NRI
publication.
GUESTS LIST:
Guests at the White House dinner given
by President and Mrs. Bush for Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs. Gursharan Kaur,
as released by the White House:
Ranendra Sen, Ambassador of India to the U.S.,
and Kalpana Sen
K. Natwar Singh, Indian Minister of External
Affairs
Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman,
India Planning Commission
Prithviraj Chavan, Indian Minister of State
Mayankote Kelath Narayanan, Indian National
Security Adviser
Thottuvelil Krishna Aiyappan Nair, Principal
Secretary to the Indian Prime Minister
Shyam Saran, Indian Foreign Secretary
Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons
Mukesh Ambani, Group Chairman, Reliance Industries
Nandan Nilekani, President and CEO, Infosys
Technologies
Durga Agrawal, President, Piping Technology
and Products, and Sushila Agrawal
B.N. Bahadur, Chairman and CEO, B.B.K. Limited,
and Rani Bahadur
Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard executive editor,
and Barbara Barnes
Subha Barry, First Vice President, Merrill Lynch,
Multicultural and Diversified Business, and
James Barry
Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman and M. Diane
Bodman
Dr. Amar Bose, Chairman of the Board and CEO,
Bose Corp., and Ursula Bose
David Brooks, columnist, The New York Times,
and Jane Hughes
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
R. Nicholas Burns, Undersecretary of State for
Political Affairs, and Elizabeth Baylies
Andrew H. Card Jr., Presidential Chief of Staff,
and Kathleene B. Card
Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, Director, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, and Karin Chaudhari
Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney
Brandon Chillar, St. Louis Rams linebacker,
and father, Ram Chillar
J.D. Crouch, Deputy National Security Adviser,
and Kristin Crouch
Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and Thomas Abraham,
Councilman-at-Large, Sugar Land, Texas
Dr. Ravindra Desai, ENT Surgeon, and Lalita
Desai
Dr. Vishakha N. Desai, President, Asia Society,
and Dr. Robert Oxnam
Donald B. Ensenat, U.S. Chief of Protocol, and
Taylor Ensenat
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Richard
C. Blum
Douglas Feith, Defense Undersecretary for Policy,
and Yana Feith
Raghubir Goyal, White House correspondent, India
Globe and Asia Today, and Dr. Jai Narain Gupta
Michael J. Green, Senior Director for East Asian
Affairs, National Security Council, and Eileen
Pennington
Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and Edilia
Gutierrez
Stephen J. Hadley, national security adviser,
and Ann Hadley
Dr. Shabbir Hashim, owner, Westgate Dental Arts,
and Arwa S. Hashim
Allan B. Hubbard, National Economic Council
director, and Kathryn Hubbard
Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
Co., and Andrea Immelt
Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-La., and Supriya Jindal
Farooq Kathwari, Chairman, President and CEO,
Ethan Allen Inc., and Farida Kathwari
Brett Kavanaugh, assistant to the President,
and Ashley Kavanaugh
Dr. Sharad Lakhanpal, past president of the
American Association of Physicians of Indian
Origin, and Rashmi Lakhanpal
I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff to the Vice President,
and Harriet Grant
Tom Loeffler, Senior Partner, Loeffler Tuggey
Pauerstein and Rosenthal LLP, and Nancy Loeffler
Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., and Char Lugar
The Rev. Dr. Bernard Malik, President, Federation
of Indian American Christian Organizations of
North America, and Abraham P. Mammen, Vice President,
FIACONA
Dr. Srini Malini, radiologist, and niece Arathi
Narasimhan
Anita McBride, Chief of Staff to the First Lady
Timothy J. McBride, Senior Vice President, Freddie
Mac
David McCullough, author, and Rosalee McCullough
W. James McNerney Jr., Chairman, President and
CEO, The Boeing Co.
David C. Mulford, American Ambassador to India,
and Jeannie Mulford
Mrs. Indra Nooyi, President and CFO, PepsiCo
Inc., and Raj Nooyi
Gen. Peter Pace, Vice Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and Lynne Pace
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J.
Sarah Perot, wife of Ross Perot Jr.
Jerome M. Fullinwider, Chairman, VF-Russia Inc.
Robert Portman, United States Trade Representative,
and Jane Portman
Dr. Julian Raby, director, Freer Gallery of
Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and Lorna
Raby
Narender Reddy, President, Sterling Realty Services
Inc., and Sikiu Yepes
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Christina B. Rocca, Assistant Secretary of State
for South Asian Affairs, and Gordon L. Rocca
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Joyce
Rumsfeld
Laurence H. Silberman, Senior Judge, U.S. Court
of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Rosalie
Silberman
Dr. Rajwant Singh, National Chairman, Sikh Council
on Religion and Education, and Balbinder Kaur
Bob Stevens, Chairman, President and CEO, Lockheed
Martin Corp., and Michelle Stevens
J.W. Stewart Jr., CEO and Chairman, BJ Services,
and Anne Stewart
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Virginia
Thomas
Raj Vattikuti, President and CEO, Covansys Corp.,
and Padmaja Vattikuti
Dr. Raghavendra Vijayanagar, Senior Partner,
Gulf to Bay Cardiovascular Surgical Associates,
and Kathleen M. Vijayanagar
Commander Sunita Lyn Williams, astronaut, and
Michael Williams
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz
Dr. Mammen Zachariah, Medical Director of Interventional
Cardiology, Fort Lauderdale Heart Institute,
and Molly Zachariah
Dr. Zach Zachariah, President, Fort Lauderdale
Heart Institute, and son Alexander Zachariah
