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Indian woman is UK’s ‘most
brilliant Asian’
WSN Network
LONDON: Brown Britain
has felicitated its newest star and currently, most influential
daughter, an East African Indian woman known to her detractors as
‘the Shriek’. But Ugandan immigrant Shriti Vadera may be more
accurately described as the right-hand woman of new prime minister
Gordon Brown. Late on Monday, at a glittering ceremony marked by the
presence as chief guest of the prime ministerial spouse Sarah,
Vadera officially became the UK’s “most brilliant Asian”. The award,
officially, if unfortunately titled the “Hammer”, was given to
Vadera by the Asian Media & Marketing Group (AMG), which claims to
be Britain’s largest Asian-owned media organisation. The so-called
Leadership and Diversity awards also acknowledged other British
Indian worthies such as Angad Paul, the 37-year-old son of Lord
Swaraj Paul, who was crowned “entrepreneur of the year” for
overseeing a 35% increase in the turnover of his company Caparo.
But it is the
Oxford-educated Vadera’s sudden prominence that has occasioned the
most comment. As also the British Asian community’s sudden desperate
desire to felicitate her. The clutch of glittering prizes for Vadera
comes just weeks after Brown appointed her the parliamentary
under-secretary at the Department for International Development.
When asked if India’s invitation to join the G8’s outreach
discussions at Gleneagles meant New Delhi too should start to help
the world’s more unfortunate in cash and kind, the former investment
banker, was dismissive. She pointed to India’s inherent poverty and
advised the world to get real about India’s status as an emerging
economy. India, she said, had too many problems of its own to turn
benefactor.
12 September, 2007
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