In his write-up for Time magazine, British film director Tom Harper described Alia Bhatt as a “formidable talent.” Bhatt, who holds British citizenship, is based in India and works predominantly in the Hindi film industry.
A British actor of Indian descent – his parents are Indian Gujarati Hindus – Dev Patel made a crackling big screen debut with “Slumdog Millionaire”, a film that propelled him to international fame in 2008.
India’s first and only female wrestler to win an Olympic medal, Sakshi Malik last year became the face of resistance against Brij Bhushan Singh, the Wrestling Federation of India chief who was accused of sexually harassing athletes.
The executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, is appearing on Time’s most influential list for the third time. Nadella was born in Hyderabad and received his bachelor’s degree from the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka before moving to the United States.
India-born Ajay Banga has ascended the ranks to serve as president of the World Bank today. Banga was born in Pune and graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He became a US citizen in 2007.
Director of the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, Jigar Shah “leads one of the largest economic-development programs the world has ever seen,” says Richard Branson. He was born in India but moved to the United States when he was one-year-old.
An Indian-born British restaurateur and cookbook author, Asma Khan is the force behind the acclaimed London restaurant, Darjeeling Express, which is famous for its all-female kitchen. “Asma’s food is surprising. It doesn’t taste like restaurant food—and that is the highest compliment,” wrote Padma Lakshmi for Time.
Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor in the departments of astronomy and physics at Yale University. She is noted for her work in mapping dark matter and dark energy. Natarajan was born in Tamil Nadu and studied at Delhi Public School, RK Puram.