Dev Sethi
Position: President
Year: Senior
Major: Pre-Cab Driver
Hometown: Naperville, IL
Favorite TV Show: The Daily Show/Colbert Report
Favorite Movie: Memento, Beautiful Mind, pi, Seven, Last Samurai
Favorite Book: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ender's series, The Elegant Universe
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Reading
Fondest College Memory: [insert shameless ISA plug here]
E-mail: dsethi2@uiuc.edu

 


Neal Dodia
Position: Internal Vice President
Year: Junior
Major: MCB/Chemistry/Pre-Med
Hometown: Gilman, IL
Favorite TV Show: Scrubs/The Office
Favorite Movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Favorite Book: Harry Potter
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: watching movies
Fondest College Memory: Its a toss up between being cultural chair and late night with my friends. Oh how I will miss late night...
E-mail: ndodia2@uiuc.edu


Viraj Patel
Position: External Vice President
Year: Junior
Major: English and Philosophy. Don't worry, though- I'm also pre-law.
Hometown: Downers Grove, IL
Favorite TV Show: Pretty much any medical pop-culture show.
Favorite Movie: I lowe Bollywood!
Favorite Book: Whatever I'm reading at the moment.
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Reading/gtalk
Fondest College Memory: Playing in the snow during the snow days my sophomore year!
E-mail: vpatel9@uiuc.edu

 


Rupa Dev
Position: Secretary
Year: Senior
Major: English, Sociology
Hometown: Cupertino, CA
Favorite TV Show: Arrested Development
Favorite Movie: Before Sunset, Eternal Sunshine, Good Will Hunting
Favorite Book: The Art of Happiness, Self-Reliance, Over Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, He's Just Not That Into You
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Facebook, Gmail
Fondest College Memory: Every late-night conversation---from the insightful to the down-right inappropriate---that occurred at Undergraduate Library (and slaving myself to UGL Espresso Royale since freshman year)
E-mail:rupadev2@uiuc.edu

 


Varun Bhargava
Position: Treasurer
Year: 2008
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Hometown: Palo Alto, California
Favorite TV Show: Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Favorite Movie: Boondock Saints, Love Actually
Favorite Book: none
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: movies, tv, friends
Fondest College Memory: hangin out with ppl
E-mail: varun.bhargava.isa@gmail.com

 


Vaish Shastry
Position: Cultural
Year: Sophomore
Major: Finance
Hometown: Naperville!
Favorite TV Show: LOST
Favorite Movie: Amelie, Munich
Favorite Book: I truly wish I were Harry Potter
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Napping
Fondest College Memory: Discovering I can make a pterodactyl noise. Using said noise at inopportune times. Losing friends in the process.
E-mail: shastry2@uiuc.edu

 


Monika Narayen
Position: Cultural Chair
Year: Sophomore
Major: Political Science
Hometown: Naperville
Favorite TV Show: The Office
Favorite Movie: A Few Good Men
Favorite Book: Baby-Sitters Club
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: planning my next meal.
Fondest College Memory: going to my first apartment party, standing out on the deck and loudly proclaiming "So THAT'S what a beer keg looks like." Only after, of course, I asked if they had water.
E-mail: narayen2@uiuc.edu

 


Miral Patel
Position: Social Chair
Year: Sophomore
Major: Psychology/ Chemistry/ Pre-Med
Hometown: Des Plaines, IL
Favorite TV Show: House M.D., Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, (basically any medical show)
Favorite Movie: Pirates of the Carribbean and Beautiful Mind
Favorite Book: The Harry Potter Series
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Hanginout with friends or reading
Fondest College Memory: Having snowball fights during the Snow Days
E-mail: mpatel79@uiuc.edu

 


Samarth Bhaskar
Position : Cultural Awareness Co-Chair
Year: 2010
Major: International Studies
Hometown: Bloomington/Normal Illinois
E-mail: samarth.bhaskar@gmail.com

 


Harry Thompson
Position: Cultural Awareness
Year: Junior
Major: Accountancy/South Asian Studies
Hometown: Champaign, IL
Favorite TV Show: Colbert Report, The Office
Favorite Movie: Gladiator and Gandhi (polar opposites, I know), Rush Hour, Yuva, Black, Lagaan, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kal Ho Naa Ho
Favorite Book: Midnight Diaries
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Watching Comedy Central and the Discovery Channel
Fondest College Memory: 5am Hindi study sessions, even though we never seemed to get around to studying Hindi.
E-mail: ithompso@uiuc.edu

 

Nisa Agrawal
Position: Philanthropy
Year: Senior
Major: Accountancy & Management--Entrepreneurship
Hometown: Burr Ridge, IL
Favorite TV Show: Indian Idol
Favorite Movie: Aladdin, Office Space
Favorite Book: Crime & Punishment, The DaVinci Code
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Talking to people on g-chat
Fondest College Memory: Arranging for Raagapella to perform at UIUC last year
E-mail: nagrawa2@uiuc.edu

Kunjal Raichura
Position: Philanthropy Chair
Year: Junior
Major: MCB / Spanish
Hometown: Lombard, IL
Favorite TV Show: House
Favorite Movie: Pursuit of Happiness + Lots more!
Favorite Book: Bean Trees
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Cleaning
Fondest College Memory: Climbing the Alma Mater
E-mail: kraichu2@gmail.com


Ajay Alexander
Position: Publicity
Year: Senior
Major: Political Science, Philosophy
Hometown: Elmhurst, IL
Favorite TV Show: House MD, The Office
Favorite Movie: Blood Diamond
Favorite Book: Assault on Reason, Tuesdays with Morrie
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Daydreaming
Fondest College Memory: Being involved in the cultural community....oh, and having my poster plastered all over campus (though I'm guessing that's everyone's favorite memory)
E-mail: alexander.ajay@gmail.com

Amy Patel
Position: Publicity
Year: Sophomore
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Carol Stream
Favorite TV Show: Grey's Anatomy, Law and Order SVU
Favorite Movie: Life is Beautiful, Lion King, the Notebook, Knocked up!
Favorite Book: Snow Falling on Ceders, The Princess, the Giver
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: I live my life religiously by AIM and I have unlimited texting.
Fondest College Memory: the first time I felt all warm and happy on the inside…was when I first bit into a slice of Drew's pizza.
E-mail: patel36@uiuc.edu

Bimel Thomas
Position: Athletic Chair
Year: Senior
Major: Psychology, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Hometown: Des Plaines, IL but Chengannur, Kerala if you're hardcore like that
Favorite TV Show: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air! and Scrubs is fighting its way up there
Favorite Movie: Home Alone I and II. I'm emotionally attached.
Favorite Book: Lord of the Flies
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Jammin, Singing in falsetto, throwing random things out on to Green Street from my apartment window, and lighting things on fire with my roommates. No joke.
Fondest College Memory: ICF Overflow dance skit from India Night 2k6, and all the Chai-Town road trips.
E-mail: bimel.thomas@gmail.com

 


Nirali Shah
Position: Design
Year: Sophomore
Major: Psychology
Hometown: EXTREMEwood, Illinois
Favorite TV Show: The Office, Arrested Development
Favorite Movie: Wimbledon
Favorite Book: A Prayer For Owen Meany
Favorite Way to Procrastinate: Facebooking and blowing bubbles on the quad
Fondest College Memory: Meeting Mae!
E-mail: ndshah2@uiuc.edu