The Notorious BIJ blog

Doogie Howser, MD

I just heard that the first “indian-american” was elected Louisiana’s Governor. That’s very cool. I always knew that it would happen someday; I just didn’t think it would happen this soon. 

However, I’m a bit intrigued and puzzled by two things in this article and about Jindal. It states that he converted from Hindism to the Catholic faith as a teenager…I bet there’s an interesting story there as this is very rare in the indian community. The second thing that was interesting was that Jindal was picked to head the state health dept. for Louisiana at age 24…wow that’s quite young and quite an accomplishment!!! He’s the indian-american equivalent of Doogie Howser, but for politics rather than medicine.  

-bijal

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-14-louisiana_N.htm?csp=34

ps-and he kind of looks like my dad :)