comedienne mindy kaling , 35 , says she did not know about her brother 's decision to apply to medical school posing as an african american .
vijay chokal-ingam , 38 , claims he pretended to be a black man and was accepted into the st. louis university school of medicine in 1998 .
he says he decided he 'd have a better chance of getting into medical school if he was black rather than as an indian-american man .
tells of his experiences on his own blog , almost black and criticizes affirmative action .
their mother died in january 2012 , eight months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer .