Talk:Jay Chandrasekhar

"race" (was "Untitled")

What's his race? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.5.123.159 (talk) 09:19, 18 May 2005‎
Indian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.177.17.164 (talk) 01:35, 23 May 2005‎

"They think I'm Mexican." "You're not?"

Sorry, couldn't resist.
--Azure Haights 01:16, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

   "Resisting" is an especially valuable discipline, when what would be resisted is uttering cryptic humor that revolves around topics whose qualification as "humor" is a matter of controversy.
   (Let me clarify: I can't tell whether this colleague thinks

* racial difference, and/or treating "Indian" and/or "Mexican" as a matter of "race", and/or

* having affinity to India, Native American people, Mexican people, or making distinctions relating to race and nationality

is/are fertile ground for lightening the burdens of our work here,

let alone whether they think fostering communal tensions is desirable.

And in light of the ambiguity and potential for giving offense, i think all of those are ill-advised barriers to some serious work we do here.)

--Jerzy•t 06:33, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

   There's a rough division, as to language families and as to physical anthropology, between the north and the south of India. Jay C (BTW presumably by birth an American citizen) seems have some family background in southern India. At a glance my impression is that he is, or at least his family of origin are, likely to have ties to the Tamil group; my memory is rusty about the degrees to which "Tamil" carries linguistic, genetic, caste, political, and other significations; consulting the articles linked by the Dab i just linked to may be valuable to those with strong enough concern.
--Jerzy•t 06:33, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

What about Kal Penn?

'"Along with M. Night Shyamalan and actor Sendhil Ramamurthy, Chandrasekhar is one of the few prominent entertainers working in Hollywood with a South-Indian heritage."' To which I say, what about Kal Penn? -- Jalabi99 07:17, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

'" You know, I thought the same thing, but he's of West Indian descent. -- Cabez

South Indian, not South Asian descent. Kal Penn is Gujarati, which makes him West Indian like Cabez says. And West Indian of India, not the West Indies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.10.126.23 (talk) 20:41, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Tamil name

Is there a reason the Tamil transliteration of his name is included? He was born in the U.S. and speaks English. Do we just include transliterations of people's names as a rule to indicate they're not white? Is that a policy here? —Gendralman (talk) 20:39, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Picture?

How does someone this iconic and well known have a Wikipedia page without a single picture of them? 2601:1C0:5202:E2E0:A1AD:2232:513E:46C9 (talk) 09:40, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

NYPD Blue season 5 episode 1 guest star appearance?

To be added to filmography, possibly... 76.25.202.29 (talk) 07:13, 25 September 2022 (UTC)