Entertainment mediums in the West are introducing likable South Asian protagonists into fiction--slightly steering away from its history of brownface casting and becoming more inclusive of South Asian storytellers. Although Squid Game's Ali Abdul and Midnight Mass' Sheriff Hassan weren't the main characters of their respective stories, they were unapologetically brown, purposeful, and supported by the story. Even the imperfect desi girl Devi Vishwakumar from Never Have I Ever--whose actor...
