THE INDOFILES

There is a little bit of a trend on TV to answer the criticism that minorities, and in this case South Asians, are portrayed stereotypically by removing some of their ethnic/racial markers.
There is Kal Penn’s former character Lawrence Kutner on House. Kutner’s Indianness does not figure into the show much at all. We know [...]

First, some numbers. According to the 2000 Census, there are 2.1 million South Asians in America. Of those, nearly 1.9 million are from India, 204,000 from Pakistan, 25,000 from Sri Lanka, and 57,000 from Bangladesh.
This population is variously referred to by the individual nations, and also as Indians, Indian-Americans, South Asians, desis. [...]