{"id":13691,"date":"2016-06-30T20:50:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T20:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=13691"},"modified":"2016-06-30T21:36:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T21:36:38","slug":"2016-great-immigrants-pride-of-america-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/2016-great-immigrants-pride-of-america-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Indian Americans are Winners of 2016 Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Moments of pride dawned upon the Indian American community when it was announced \u201cThe 2016 Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award goes to four Indian Americans\u201d<\/strong> among the 42 winners representing 30 countries. They are Sundar Pichai, Bharati Mukherjee, Hari Sreenivasan and Vikram Malhotra.<\/p>\n The Carnegie Corporation of New York, founded by Scottish immigrant Andrew Carnegie, institutionalized the Pride of America Award in 2006 to felicitate eminent naturalized citizens of America for their notable contributions to the progress of society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “The accomplished winners of ‘The 2016 Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award’ represent millions of immigrants who have come to the United States for various reasons<\/strong> such as business, employment, education, politics, security and reunion with relatives or family. They, like all Americans, share a common faith in this country,” says Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation<\/p>\n Google CEO Sundar Pichai needs no introduction! A Chennai<\/a><\/span>-born IIT graduate from India, he earned an MS degree from Stanford University and pursued MBA at Wharton School<\/strong>. Since 2004 he has been a Google employee and worked on development of several Google products including Gmail, Chrome OS, Google Drive and Google Maps.<\/p>\n Among the Indian American winners of \u201cThe 2016 Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award\u201d, Bharati Mukherjee is a professor and published author in USA. A graduate of Calcutta University in Kolkata<\/a><\/span>, she did PhD at the University of Iowa. She has authored several novels, including \u201cThe Tiger\u2019s Daughter,\u201d \u201cThe Holder of the World,\u201d and \u201cWife.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Bharati Mukherjee is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/strong> Previously she had taught at the City University of New York, the University of Iowa, Queens College and McGill University. She won the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award for \u201cThe Middleman and Other Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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