Washington: A former top American diplomat has hoped that President Barack Obama invites Nina Davuluri when he hosts Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for lunch at the White House next Friday, in recognition of the contribution of Indian-Americans to the United States.
Nina Davuluri, 24, is the first Indian-American to have been crowned with the Miss American title. “When Prime Minister Singh and President Obama get together, I am hoping that they might invite the latest Miss America, the first Indian American to have won that wonderful honour.
May be they can ask her down for lunch,” Karl Inderfurth, the former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs from 1997-2001 said.
“This is further indication of the people-to-people ties. The Indian-American community is doing so much in the US now...they basically own the American spelling bee. She is the first Indian American to win the Miss America. This is a good story,” said Inderfurth, who currently is the Senior Adviser and Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies of the prominent think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“I think her performance was a Bollywood fusion dance. This is good exposure for Americans,” he said. Singh would be in Washington for a day on a working visit for a meeting with Obama on September 27.
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