A grandmother who is nearing retirement.

A career woman with a strong family life, Gayatri never saw the working woman's debate as career vs. family, but as career and family. She is extremely talented and beautiful, with a relatively high-level job at work.

A member of the medical community who loves his family a lot. He is also quite young at heart, despite being in his mid-40s.

She's miss perfect, intellectually and physically gifted, well-liked, and from a loving, low-stress family.

Sensible and intelligent, Jai is the leader of a controversial heavy metal band.

He's an iron-fisted and conservative family patriarch, and needless to say, it's ironic that he works as a subordinate to Gayatri.

Kishore's oppressed housewife who nonetheless tries to exercise some authority over the children.

Thanks to her dad's chauvanism, she is deprived of the pleasures that Maya takes for granted.

A young ABCD who actively resents being taken to Indian cultural events.

Fiercely proud of his Teutonic roots, Heinrich spends much of his free time researching what causes some cultures and societies to gain supremacy over others.

He's a socially-conscious Irishman...or at least he would be, if he wasn't born in the States.

Despite his hedonism and slacker tendencies, Gopal is quite intelligent.

A close friend of Maya's who is also a cheerleader, not to mention intellectually gifted.

Maya's other good friend, also a cheerleader.

A football quarterback who never thought about being black or African culture...until a real African (by nationality) came into his life.

One of many Gujurati Indians from Kenya, now living in the United States. Despite his Indian ancestry, he's far more African than Biff could ever hope to be.