-and joining me now is hari kondabolu. so nice to have you here. -thanks for having me. favorite tv shows as a kid, and yet you were shafrustrated with the cracter named apu. why? -apu is a convenience store owner, very one-dimensional, stereotypical, and at that time, that's the only depiction south asian-americans had, specifically indian-americans. like, we didn't have anything else, and initially we were... i think i was excited because we had something. when you have nothing, you're excited about anything, but as i got older, i realized, "oh, this is all we ha, and this is how my parents are depicted," and this is... it's such a narrow way to be seen. -was it the accents? because a white actor, t hank azaria, d accent. -yeah. the accent is definitely a part of it.'s n accent meant to elicit laughter. it's not that realistic.fa th that everything he did always was connected to his indianness or what, like, the white writers and executives thought indianness was. -you were taking on... or you are taking on a well-loved tv show and taking on tie question of apu in re t