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I Owe 90 Per Cent Of My Life To People Because I Am A Public Figure, But 10 Per Cent Is Private To Me. And I Am Not Saying It In A Defensive Way. I Feel My Life Has Been Made Into A Tv Serial.

I Don't Think A Lot Of People In America Understand What Indians Are. And That's Our Fault, A Little. We Tend To Forget Our Roots A Bit. As Kids We Think, If I'm Too Indian, I'll Be Put In A Box, And People Will Think Of Me As Different. They'll Think I'm Weird, Because I Eat Indian Food Or My Name Is Difficult To Pronounce.

When Somebody Else Calls You Exotic, Exotic Is A Box - It's The Stereotype Of Snake Charmers And Face Jewelry. You're Just That Stereotype. But I Don't Get Offended Anymore. I Used To Get Offended By Things That Were Said To Me, Or How I Was Seen. Now I Educate. If I Get Pissed Off, I'll Educate In A Sassy Way. Other Times I Educate In A Gandhi-like Way. You Know - I Have My Moods.

I Live Cinema And Passionately Love Music, And My Efforts In Both These Crafts Are Unfolding.

I'm Not American, But I Do Have An Opinion, And I Think That Right Now, It Is What It Is, And I Think The Country Needs To Come Together To Say: What Is The America We Want To Create Right Now? The Same Thing Will Happen On Television Now Going Forward If We Do Have A Female President. It Will Be Something That Will Be Discussed.