This American Life - 2

If you Google for "mokshagundam", "deepa", "youtube", you will come across a standup comedy routine, by a (then) undergraduate Indian student at MIT.

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When Indian families meet, the parents brag about their children's achievement. One aunty brags that her daughter went to space camp in the summer in Alabama. Another aunty counters

"That is nothing. My daughter actually went to space"

 

Isn't she?

Her last name Mokshagundam is the village of the famous engineer Visvesvaraya.