Here’s an entirely unnecessary piece of advice for young Indian men, particularly those who are in the cocky age when any advice from a 50 something is dispensed with as if it were a bubblegum wrapper: Please do not sport a three-day stubble that is so in among white American youth. It doesn’t go with your skin color or other physical attributes. All it does is to make you look shabby and unkempt. Every day I see nice young Indian men with H1B written all over them, commuting in New York City subways in their blue jeans and new sneakers and bulging backpacks. It is nice to watch this tech-savvy set with (Intel) chips on their shoulders. I quite understand why they mostly move in packs and behave self-consciously, which makes them talk loudly in public places, and all at the same time, too. But I can’t fathom why they insist on having the fuzz on their faces. They are old enough to understand that what is trendy with other races doesn’t always work for us, and vice versa. As George Carlin once said, it is ok for a black guys to wear the baseball cap facing backside. They look cool. But his take on how it looks on white guys is unprintable. All fashions are not always ethnically transferable. For instance, a sari seldom goes well with white women (don’t ask me why). Talking of girls, can the desi versions please avoid those highlights? They look like, to quote Carlin, totally ...