Kamna Shastri is an Indian-American woman who was born with Albinism, pictured with her parents and brother. She has talked in detail that due to similar facial features with white people she and other Albino Indians pass as white and that she is treated as a white person in both America and India.

I am a Marathi speaker from central India but I wouldn't call myself Marathi ethnicity because the term is too broad. My family is from the borderlands of Marathi culture and we are like a 1000km away from Marathi culture heartlands.

The region in India I am from is extremely diverse with 4 major language speakers living side by side, it was also a famous internationally well connected kingdom centuries ago and there were migrants from all over the old world.

Genetically, no idea. Probably a good mix of Aryan (not the European definition) and Dravidian. If I had to guess, ancestors on my father's side were Dravidian speakers who adopted Marathi a long time ago. On my mother's side, ancestors were probably gifted lands in the region or they simply migrated southwards from northern India looking for new lands.

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