About Those Monkey Brains ... My Secret Nights as an Indian Standup Comic in New York

As the author explains it: When I first came to America from India a few decades back, many Americans thought that India meant sacred cows, starving millions, snake charmers, monkeys, and elephants. Which upset me, because though one of my aunts was indeed a cow, the monkeys in my family had descended from the trees well over two hundred years earlier, and what’s more—unlike Obama—had the birth certificates to prove it, despite the claim of some Birthers that the birth certificates were fak...