Damme, This is the Oriental Scene for You!

SFGate.com profiles Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi in one of those pieces where it's hard to tell who's more wide-eyed, the author or the interviewer:

Growing up in Bombay, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi wasn't a typical Indian schoolboy. Sensitive, precocious, exotically beautiful with eyes the color of nutmeg, he never got on with children his age and often felt, he says, "like a bloody reject."

(From Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens:
"Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon. "I'll tell you what, sir," he said; "the talent of this child is not to be imagined. She must be seen, sir—seen—to be ever so faintly appreciated."... The infant phenomenon, though of short stature, had a comparatively aged countenance, and had moreover been precisely the same age—not perhaps to the full extent of the memory of the oldest inhabitant, but certainly for five good years.)