Yeah, I know. I meet a lot of people on the street who said, 'I met your cousin, I met your cousin.' They'll say this and I am like, 'That's not my cousin.' There are lots of Indians saying, 'I'm his cousin, I'm related to him this way, that way, married to this. . .'

•For all you know they might be . . .

It's true. I got a lot of cousins.

•The family trees stretch in India . . .

In fact when my cousins meet people who say, 'I'm his cousin' and they go, 'No, I am his cousin.'

•But that's flattering.

It is. It's very sweet. And then we call everybody Uncle and Auntie anyway, and it's like, 'Uncle . . .'

• Yeah, anybody you meet in the flight.

Yeah, exactly.

• So tell me, how Indian do you feel? Or does this remind you of your Indian origins more?

I feel a great balance between here and the life I've led in the west. My parents are very traditional and feel very comfortable. I don't feel lost or anything. My wife is Indian and obviously our children are Indian.

• In fact, your mom came to India to deliver you.

That's correct. They were in the United States and they wanted me to be Indian!

• For an Indian doctor couple to choose to have a baby here and that too in 1970.

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