
"They call and call and call, and she is just so booked. They all want to talk to her because she's a role model for women in India," she said. "This is further indication of the people-to-people ties. The Indian-American community is doing so much in the US now...they basically own the American spelling bee. She is the first Indian American to win the Miss America. This is a good story," said Inderfurth, who currently is the Senior Adviser and Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies of the prominent think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies. Singh would be in Washington for a day on a working visit for a meeting with Obama on September 27. The meeting would be followed by lunch.