Independent on Saturday

Deeper insights lost amid whipped cream humour

TEN years ago, I interviewed Mindy Kaling when she happened to be working on her first essay collection, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns).

Her essays, she said, would be breezy. At the time, Kaling was best known for playing boy-crazy Kelly Kapoor on NBC’s (for which she was – a best-seller – hoping to know more about her would, yes, learn about Kaling’s first-generation Indian-American upbringing.

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