What “The Mindy Project” Did (and Didn’t Do) for Brown Girls on TV
The critiques Mindy Kaling received shaped the representation we see on-screen today as much as her successes did.
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Zeahaa Rehman is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist with bylines in Refinery29, The Juggernaut, The Walrus, Chatelaine, and The Toronto Star, among others. You can follow her on Twitter at @notzeahaa.
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