The ABCD's - American Born Confused Desis - is a subculture expected to become the next batch of medical students, entrepreneurs and cancer-curing researchers for which Indian parents laid the foundation
When your child has an Indian mother and a French papa, the subject of a suitable name is a cultural and linguistic minefield.
In the end, not even a combination of bhangra, rap and Bollywood could save MTV Desi. After its parent corporation, Viacom, axed Desi and other
Hip-hop has become as vital to the cultural identity of young Desis as faith and language were to their parents.
They might be dismissed as American-Born Confused Desis, but by watching these confident women gliding between western and Indian dance styles and sensibilities one recognizes that they are anything but.
A high school senior headed to Harvard University dishes out what she wishes she had known going into the application process.