The Simpsons character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon has been silent for nearly a decade after being criticised for perpetuating harmful stereotypes. The Indian convenience store worker is considered ...

“The Problem With Apu,” says Melamedoff, whose own family emigrated from Argentina, is about “how we succeed and fail representing minority voices and elevating minority voices so they can represent ...

For more than two decades, Apu was a constant on The Simpsons. Voiced by Hank Azaria, the character appeared regularly, delivered some of the show’s most quoted lines, and became one of its most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Azaria said he struggled to understand it at first. Apu had been created with affection, inspired partly by Peter Sellers’ ...