Mindy Kaling is the first South Asian woman to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce praised Kaling as an Emmy-nominated writer, Tony Award-winning producer, New York Times best-selling author, director, and actor. She is also seen as one of the biggest trailblazers for Indian Americans in Hollywood. In 2023, the White House honoured Kaling with the National Medal of Arts, the highest civilian honour given to artists by the U.S. government. “This honour was long overdue, and she is just getting started. An Oscar could very well be next,” Anip Patel, an Indian American entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor, and media strategist, said of Kaling. ‘Others like Priyanka Chopra, Zarna Nayyar, Kal Penn, are likely to break barriers in the years to come,’ he said. The actor is the creator, star, and executive producer of The Mindy Project, for which she wrote 24 of the 117 episodes produced over six seasons. She wrote twenty-three episodes (far more than any other writer) and was nominated for an Emmy—the first for a woman of colour in any writing category.
Mindy Kaling is the first South Asian woman to get a star on the Holly….
