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Meera Syal looks back: ‘South Asians weren’t seen as funny. We sold you fags or served you curry’
NEWS DESKLifestyle
PUBLISHEDSep 6, 2026, 1:00 PM
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The actor, comedian and writer on idolising Victoria Wood, being fuelled by rage and injustice after a sexual assault, and the life-changing impact of Goodness Gracious Me Born in Wolverhampton in 1961 and raised in Bloxwich, also in the West Midlands, Meera Syal is an actor, comedian, novelist and playwright who was awarded a damehood in the 2026 new year honours.
Her first…
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