Meera Syal looks back: ‘South Asians weren’t seen as funny. We sold you fags or served you curry’
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 MeBorn 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 novel, Anita and Me, won the Betty Trask award in 1996. She rose to prominence as a writer and…
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