In her new Netflix series 'Never Have I Ever,' Kaling introduces many viewers to the Hindu practice of Ganesh Puja.
The episode explores Devi’s struggle with her identity as the daughter of immigrants and her reluctance to let her Indianness to stand out. Her feelings of embarrassment about her culture are challenged by two friends — one who thinks the Bollywood dance unfolding outside is not lame; and another, home on break from college, who shares how he learned to embrace his cultural traditions after meeting someone at school who proudly continued his own.
It’s the episode that Ramakrishnan, who is Tamil Canadian, cites as the one she relates to the most because it captures what it’s like to be caught between worlds. “I remember when I was in grade three, a girl asked me, ‘Where are you from?’ And I said, ‘Canada.’ She’s like, ‘No, where are you from?’ And I’m like, ‘No, I’m... I was born in Canada, Mississauga,’"Ramakrishnan recalled. “And then she kept asking me and I got so mad, I started to cry. It’s an important conversation to have. And it’s not something that you only go through when you’re 15 like Devi.
“It looks like a Crayola box exploded,” Rodriguez says of trying to have a variety of colors and designs for the saris and kurta suits.“I’m always psyched whenever it’s Diwali time, when I hear Indian people are watching [‘The Office’] episode the way that they some people watch a Christmas episode,” she said. “And if [‘Never Have I Ever’s’] Ganesh Puja episode could become something like that, that would be my dream.
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