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Deepti Vempati: Is Love Really Blind?

Going Mental with Eileen Kelly

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How Did You Whitewash Yourself as a Kid?

I don't really have an accent anymore, but I used to when I was younger. Not having a lot of Indians around me just kind of like, you know, kept me in like a little bubble, essentially. And so because I would see people around me that were white, I would start like hanging out with obviously more white friends and incorporating their type of lifestyle or their cultures Or their behavior patterns. Now I ask questions. Like, why are we doing this boudgea? Why are we like praying to this God? You know, I'm more inquisitive about it. Whereas before, I would just kind of go through the behaviors of like the cultural things because my

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