Facts

1. As many as 12 percent of the scientists and 38 percent of the doctors in the US are Indians. Microsoft employs 34 percent Indians, IBM 28 percent, Intel 17 percent and Xerox 13 percent.
2. NRI steel supermagnate Lakshmi Mittal was listed as the fourth richest in the world by Forbes magazine with a net worth of US$ 45 billion.
3. The US Census Bureau study found that Patel, ranked 172nd, is the most common Indian surname in America. A total number of 145,000 Patels are in the US.
4. Obama, who keeps a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi in his senate office for inspiration, says: "Throughout my life, I have always looked to Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of transformational change that can be made when ordinary people come together to do extraordinary things.