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Ppt slides about accomplished PIOs It is very common to receive the lists (or graphics) depicting very successful persons of Indian origin (PIOs) on our social media timelines; email inboxes and even front pages of newspapers. Some of these lists contain names of people who are not necessarily of Indian origin, but whose names resemble Indian names like Tulsi. In some cases we do not even mind turning matriarchal, if the successful person has only a mother of Indian origin, e.g., Kamala Harris. Recently, two such persons are prominently in the news – Rishi Sunak, who lost the race to the 10 Downing Street last month, and Suella Braveman, the newly appointed Home Secretary in Liz Truss cabinet. Both British politicians happen to be born to parents of Indian origin who migrated from India many decades ago. Both were born and brought up in the UK; own a passport issued in the name of the British Monarch; have never publicly shown any allegiance to India. Suella Braveman recently lamen...