‘Never Have I Ever’ Seen Myself on Screen—Until Now

Mindy Kaling’s new Netflix show found a way to tell a story about Indian Americans with compassion

Saraana Jamraj
ZORA
Published in
8 min readMay 2, 2020

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Photos: LARA SOLANKI/NETFLIX

Adolescence was a hairy, painfully cringeworthy, bittersweet time for Brown girls growing up in the United States. And Mindy Kaling (and several other writers, producers, and directors at Netflix) took that moment…

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Saraana Jamraj
ZORA
Writer for

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