was raised as an Orthodox Jew by parents
who had fled the pogroms of Russia in 1916, and who spoke Yiddish in their home in Brooklyn, New
York. 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…
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