In United States, India-born Ghazala Hashmi has made history by winning the Virginia Lieutenant Governor’s race, becoming the first South Asian American and the first Indian-origin woman to hold the post. The 61-year-old Democrat defeated Republican John Reid, six years after she first made history as a Virginia state senator. Hashmi will succeed Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, the first woman to serve in the role. Born in Hyderabad in 1964, Ms. Hashmi spent her early years in the Malakpet area before moving to the United States at the age of four, where her father, a scholar pursuing a PhD in international relations in Georgia, later began a university teaching career.