My parents met in graduate school, married, and moved to Bethesda, Maryland where my father
spent his career doing cancer research at the National Institute of Health.
The five Nadkarni kids were varying shades of brown. I was the third child, and was the darkest of
the five, the most Indian in my facial features and body look. In contrast to other immigrant Indian
families in the area, who seemed to assimilate into western culture as quickly as possible, my parents
made our home a “Little India”…
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