A few hundred get to attend President Barack Obama 's first dinner in honour of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but only a handful got to sit with the president and first lady.

The prime minister and his daughters and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen were seated at First Lady Michelle Obama's table, while Indra Nooyi, Indian American CEO of PepsiCo and Speaker Nancy Pelosi were among those at President Obama's table.

PRESIDENT'S TABLE

Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, the wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass)

Ambassador to India Tim Roemer

Mary Johnston, Roemer's guest (likely a relative of his wife, Sally Johnston Roemer)

Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo

Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Paul Pelosi, her husband

David Geffen, the Hollywood titan

Jeremy Lingvall, Geffen's boyfriend

FIRST LADY'S TABLE

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Amrit Singh, the prime minister's daughter, an ACLU lawyer in New York

Upinder Singh, another daughter, a professor at University of Delhi

Dr. Amartya Sen, Nobel-prize winning economist, now at Harvard

Emma Rothschild, Dr. Sen's wife, economic historian, now at Harvard

Gen. Colin Powell, former Secretary of State

Alma Powell, his wife

Rep. Howard Berman, (D-Calif.)

Janis Berman, his wife

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