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Kaling's mother died of pancreatic cancer in 2012. [21] [22] [23] Kaling has said she has never been called Vera, her first name, [24] but has been referred to as Mindy since her mother was pregnant with her while her parents were living in Bengal.
Mar 12, 2023 · Mindy Kaling’s parents are Avu Chokalingam and Swati Chokalingam. They both emigrated from India to the United States in the 1970s. Mindy’s father, Avu, worked as an architect, while her mother, Swati, worked as an obstetrician/gynaecologist. Mindy was born Vera Mindy Chokalingam in 1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later changed her ...
Her mother, Swati Chokalingam (1945-2012) was an OB/GYN physician and once worked in the same Boston hospital with Ronald Krasinski, the internist father of her The Office (2005) (TV) co-star, John Krasinski.
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Apr 27, 2020 · Never Have I Ever draws on Kaling's experiences when she was in high school. The main character, Devi, is the 15-year-old daughter of immigrants from India and one the school's top students....
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Apr 5, 2023 · The future comedy star was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1979, the same year her parents immigrated to the United States from India. Her multicultural upbringing is evident even in her name: Vera Mindy Chokalingam.
- Joey Keogh
Jul 29, 2021 · Born as Vera Mindy Chokalingam in Massachusetts to a Tamil architect father and a Bengali doctor mother, Kaling’s life in Buckingham Browne & Nichols School was quite a dampener because, in her words, she was an “average overlooked” student. With no “cool” friends to hang out with, she found solace in comedy shows on American TV.
Jul 10, 2021 · MINDY KALING: So the story of why we did the show was a little bit unromantic in that I was approached by Netflix, by an executive named Brooke Kessler, who had read both of my books and loved the ...
