It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.

Of course the law's not racist.

This was in the '70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.