Crushing on the halfies
Asha Gill, host of Six Degrees, a travel show on the Discovery channel, has an English mother and a Punjabi father. She went to school in England but lives in Malaysia. She’s a former Asian VJ and host of The Weakest Link in Singapore. The new face of Tag Heuer watches. 5′8″ tall. Check out the photos, demo reel and personal site.
Radha Agrawal, trapeze artist, motocross rider and classic motorcycle enthusiast, is co-owner with her twin sister of an organic pizzeria in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The sisters are currently on a reality show called One Ocean View. She has an Indian father and a Japanese mother. I knew a girl at Berkeley with parents of the same ethnic backgrounds; her name, Ishita, was meaningful in both Punjabi and Japanese.
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on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006, 2:03 pm in Profiles › 
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Observation from someone who I fwd’ed this link to - “interesting that when they are out of India they become ‘punjabi’ rather than ‘Indian’”.
Point being - would “english mother and Marathi/Andhra father” sound the same as “english mother and punjabi father” sound the same as “english mother and Indian father”. Hm…
Bombay Addict: Asha’s dad IS Punjabi (as in, that side of the family tree hails from Punjab), and she’s Malaysian rather than Indian (she’s filmed there but never lived there) so the “out of India” argument won’t apply to her.
Also, she was the host of The Weakest Link in Singapore…Malaysia doesn’t have a “Weakest Link” ;)
- the ag.com webmistress
If the goal is to add texture to a profile, I try and be as specific as possible; if it’s to explain pan-desi issues (e.g. discrimination in the diaspora), ‘desi’ is often more appropriate.
Fixed, thanks.
Thanks - clarified.
Halfie Power! :)
Radha A is also a semi-professional soccer player - watched her on One Ocean View show-off her ball skills…