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Ravi Hutheesing: Dancin' with Hanson (Source: Amazon (Book cover))
What links the American pop band Hanson and the Nehru-Gandhi family?
Jacqueline Kennedy (White House) (Source: Wikipedia (Jacqueline Kennedy))
Jackie Kennedy travelled (sans JFK) to India & Pakistan in 1962
Mindy Kaling (Source: Business Insider (Mindy Kaling, "The Office"))
Who is this Indian American who acts, writes, produces and directs episodes of the American sitcom, The Office?
Zhou Enlai, 1946 (Source: Wikipedia)
How was a Kashmir Princess involved in the Cold War?
The ivory gavels of the United States Senate (Source: Senate.gov)
How does India provide order to the US Senate?
Portrait of Elihu Yale by Enoch Seeman the Younger, 1717 (Source: Wikipedia)
Yale, the Ivy League university, might not have existed if it wasn't for India.

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Bill Cosby and Malaria

American comedian Bill Cosby, now more famous for his cases of sexual assault, used to sedate his victims using a drug called quaalude. Quaalude is a brand name for Methaqualone, a hypnotic sedative first synthesised in India in 1951 by Indra Kishore Kacker and Syed Husain Zaheer, who were conducting research on finding new antimalarial medications. It became popular as a recreational drug in the late 60s and 70s, known variously as "ludes", "sopers" ("soaps") "mandrakes", "mandies", "disco biscuits", etc. It is now banned.

Suny Delhi

The seat of Delaware county in the state of New York, USA, is the town of Delhi. It is named after India's capital city as its founder, an Ebenezer Foote, was nicknamed, "The Great Mogul". Delhi, NY is pronounced "Del-hy" and is also home to a State University of New York or SUNY Delhi.

Salem

The capital of the state of Oregon is named Salem. All in all, there are at least 25 Salems in the US.