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Billion-Dollar Diwali: CEOs steal the show in Trump’s Oval office
Trump wasn’t just hosting a cultural ceremony — he was staging an economic tableau.
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Lalit K Jha (5WH) - Tue, 21, Oct 2025
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President Donald Trump meets Indian American business leaders and India’s Ambassador to the United States Vinay Kwatra during a Diwali celebration in the Oval Office of the White House. / Lalit K Jha
When President Donald Trump hosted a Diwali celebration in the Oval Office on Oct. 21, the most dazzling light wasn’t the brass lamp on the table — it was the combined market capitalisation of the guests standing around it.
In attendance were some of the most powerful Indian-origin business leaders in the world: Arvind Krishna of IBM, Shantanu Narayen of Adobe, Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron Technology, and Nikesh Arora of Palo Alto Networks. Between them, their companies are valued at more than $1.5 trillion and employ hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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