Good guess, but those are not prison mugshots. Rather, they are an arcade machine's idea of what I would be like, from merging papa and mummy's photos. Maybe in a few years they might be wishing they had stuck to the machine version.

My papa, when he's not busy playing with or planning things for me, is a Software Engineer, presently at KLA Tencor. He was 31 at the time of my birth and had wasted some of those years earning a BTech and then an MS in Chemical Engineering before being hooked by Java. He likes to call me his "laptop".








My mummy, 25 at the time of my birth, was studying towards an MCA after a BSc in Math when she was charmed by Papa and chucked it all to come to the US with him. The second time around, it was me who interrupted her BS at SJSU. Braving all the morning sickness, heartburn, aches and pains that I give her, she is the world's greatest mom.

They languish in the ghettoes of San Jose in the Silicon Valley presently, which is where you'll find me.







Those are my grandparents on my papa's side (dadajee and dadijee) with me.


These my grandparents on my mummy's side (nanajee and nanijee).




That's papa with his two brothers (bade papa on the left, daddy on the right). Yes, they're all wacky!


And mummy with my aunts - mom center, badi mummy right.


Me with my uncle (mama), mummy's brother.



And finally, me with my cousin (bade papa's son), Shubh bhaiya.

The rest of the family tree is here.