Piyush Jindal (pronounced
/ˈdʒɪndəl/) was born on June 10, 1971 in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to
Punjabi Indian immigrants Amar and Raj Jindal, who had recently arrived for Amar to attend graduate school at
Louisiana State University.
[1] His father, Amar, left
India and his ancestral family village of
Khanpura in 1970,
[3] and his parents took their citizenship oaths later that year to become naturalized citizens. His mother, Raj, is an information technology director for the Louisiana Department of Labor.
[4] According to family lore, Jindal chose to re-name himself "Bobby" inspired by the sitcom character
Bobby Brady after watching
The Brady Bunch television series at the age of four.
[+] To this day, Jindal has not read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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