At the risk of sounding too desi...

I'm sure you all know how the desi "arguments" go. Zero logic. And always ending with a, "VAT IS THIS! RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!" Take this as verbal thappad #1. It all started with me and my parents sitting down to watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune back to back. My parents start balls-out crazy when they see a contestant on Jeopardy named "Raghuveer Mukkamalla". My parents abruptly decide that he's a fellow Telugu. In about 2 seconds, they have him climbing Mt. Everest and bringing down the entire Jewish race. Yes, random Anti-Semitic comments do pepper (or rather masala) the conversations in my house. Next commercial break, they force me to Google this random guy to find out his life history. (A little background info: my mom's computer knowledge amounts to nil, zilch and zero). Suddenly, my mom takes hold of my computer, apparently bestowed with all the knowledge in the world on how to use Google. Apparently discovering Google for the first time since 1998, my parents start Googling all the randomest relatives from aunts, cousins, and random people we know with a frenzy like they've just discovered the cure to cancer. (And yes, I've abandoned my oh-so-perfect sense of grammar in this rant against the illogical parental unit). Next tuning into Wheel of Fortune, we see another desi, this one, decided by my parents to be born in America. Leaving out the nitty-gritty details (partly because they make NO sense), I end up banished from my nightly tv solaces to my room to "study". Go figure, who knew the parents who take to logical professions leave all intelligence to the wind with their children. And yes, I'm writing this as I listen to "Desi Girl".