Desi LandDesi Land is Shalini Shankars lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or Desis, define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology. Between 1999 and 2001 Shankar spent many months kickin it with Desi teenagers at three Silicon Valley high schools, and she has since followed their lives and