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White House dinner: Who sat at the head tables?
Washington, Nov 25 (IANS):
A few hundred get to attend President Barack Obama 's first dinner in honour of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but only a handful got to sit with the president and first lady.
The prime minister and his daughters and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen were seated at First Lady Michelle Obama's table, while Indra Nooyi, Indian American CEO of PepsiCo and Speaker Nancy Pelosi were among those at President Obama's table. PRESIDENT'S TABLE Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, the wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) Ambassador to India Tim Roemer Mary Johnston, Roemer's guest (likely a relative of his wife, Sally Johnston Roemer) Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo Speaker Nancy Pelosi Paul Pelosi, her husband David Geffen, the Hollywood titan Jeremy Lingvall, Geffen's boyfriend FIRST LADY'S TABLE Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Amrit Singh, the prime minister's daughter, an ACLU lawyer in New York Upinder Singh, another daughter, a professor at University of Delhi Dr. Amartya Sen, Nobel-prize winning economist, now at Harvard Emma Rothschild, Dr. Sen's wife, economic historian, now at Harvard Gen. Colin Powell, former Secretary of State Alma Powell, his wife Rep. Howard Berman, (D-Calif.) Janis Berman, his wife
