When I was a kid I wasn’t up on a Saturday morning watching cartoons while eating fruit loops. Instead, like many Tamil children, I was usually half asleep trying to learn the language that I first learned to speak.

If you were to ask my 14 year old self what I watched on TV, I would likely say <em>Malcolm in the Middle, Boy Meets World, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air</em> and anything on YTV or the Family Channel. What is interesting about these shows on television during my childhood was that none of them reflected a storyline similar to my own upbringing.