KIEV — I was born in India to an American mother and Indian father and moved to the United States after high school to study at New York’s Columbia University. Having an American passport from birth, speaking English at home in Hyderabad, and visiting my grandparents in Pennsylvania over the summers, I considered myself an American — or a hyphenated one at least. But as an undergraduate at Columbia my Indian accent put me squarely in the subcontinental crowd.
Fellow students weren’t interested in the ambiguities of my Indian-ness. They wanted to know whether I ate beef, or would consent to …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
