Author's Corner : I am an Indian wannabe, I admit it. I long to look in the mirror and see dewy caramel skin, jet black hair, and raven eyes. Instead what I see reflected are the freckles passed on from my Irish ancestors, a petite frame and green eyes from my German grandmother, and perhaps more than your average amount of chutzpah from my paternal Russian-Jewish grandparents. I am quite a sight in a sari...

...extract from Far Eastern Economic Review