Maharajah Dracula, Bill Clinton, Rhodes Scholarship, Demon Deacons .... etc

Quite a few students of South Asian origin in the US were chosen for the Rhodes Scholarship 2006, a very prestigious prestigious award in which 85 scholars are selected worldwide. Former Rhodes Scholars include President Bill Clinton, U S Supreme Court Justice David Souter, singer Kris Kristofferson, and former presidential candidate Bill Bradley and James William Fulbright, creator of the Fulbright Scholarships.

Among them is Lakshmi Krishnan, of Sugar Land, Texas, who attends Wake Forest University (Demon Deacons) and is writing her senior thesis on vampires (ahem .... vampires, Demons, get the connection???) and blood contagion in 19th-century literature.

Other South Asian students on the list include Rahul Satija, Noorain F Khan and Samsher S Gill.