India's newest exports- leaders

India was once upon a time the hunting ground for cheap labour, hoards of whom alighted on distant shores in search of a better lifestyle for themselves and their children. Now in the news are, one after another, global leaders of Indian origin- in business or otherwise.

Citi group announced last week its new global CEO. Vikram Pandit, a Maharashtrian, left India at the age of 16 to join Columbia University. An engineer, he completed his Ph.d in Finance. Earlier he was COO of Morgan Stanley. He now heads what is a predominant Indian presence in the Citi hierarchy.

In 2006 Indra Nooyi was named CEO of Pepsico. She is a grad from IIMC and worked in India for several years before she left for Yale and a hot shot career.

Here is an article which sums up whats been happening in the global leadership scene with Indians in some time now.

Basdeo Panday, a second generation Indian was Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago for 6 years till he was succeeded in 2001, and has remained leader of parliament for decades now. Mahendra Pal Chaudhary, was prime minister of Fiji but for a short one year before he was ousted in a coup.

The front runner in the US presidential elections Hillary Clinton's aide and right hand woman, Huma Abedin, has been in the news for some time now, lately for the wrong reasons. Read more about it here.

Fareed Zakaria is now the editor in chief of Newsweek International and one of the spokespersons India can count on. Of course Shashi Tharoor is another.

And nothing new to be said of the late Kalpana Chawla and Suneeta Willaims, or of the Manoj Shyamalan-s and the Vikram Seth-s.

Indians rock, or what!!!