User blog comment:Freelance Grammar Nazi/Kind of a Rant...?/@comment-1271618-20100713005150

Actually anon, I think the male India idea comes from a '08 post on the Bamboo blog. I'd have to try and hunt for it though D:

It was something along the lines of that he thought India would be a man, and have a Maharaja uncle kind of look to him. But then he said that there wasn't much chance that he'd get to drawing them, and that they might come out with a younger feel if they did. Of course he could change his mind! Look at all those rejected drafts for Taiwan, wow. She could've been an old guy, a little boy, a little girl, a teenage boy, etc.