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The India Abroad awards in pictures
The India Abroad awards were instituted in 2002 to honour individual accomplishments among Indian Americans. Iowa representative Swati Dandekar was chosen as the first Person of the Year. In 2003, Sonal Shah, co-founder of Indicorps, a non-profit organization that sends Indian American youngsters on a fellowship to India for a year, was chosen.
Last year, apart from the India Abroad Person of the Year award -- conferred on Olympian silver medallist gymnast Mohini Bharadwaj -- a Publisher's Special Award was also instituted, with attorney Vanita Gupta, who successfully fought a case of discrimination of African Americans in Tulia, Texas, chosen for the honour.
Image: Vanita Gupta, winner, India Abroad Publisher's Special Award 2004.
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