Which Indian writer recently got an award from Barack Obama?

Answer 1

The most recent Indian award-winner was not an author, but rather, a scientist and inventor, a pioneer whose research led to Lasik eye surgery. Rangaswamy Srinivasan, an Indian-American whose nickname is "Doc Srini," was nominated by President Obama for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in late December 2012. As for authors, another Indian-American, Jhumpa Lahiri, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000 for her book "Interpreters of Maladies," is an appointed member of President Obama's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.