I Love You, Apu

This brief book (more of an essay really) was written to respond to the documentary "The Problem with Apu" by comic Hari Kondabolu. As you can guess by the documentary title, Hari has a problem with Apu, in fact several. But Shukla does not feel that all of them are fair criticisms, so he took time from writing his usual fare to respond in this short book. Shukla makes the point that Apu is far from a hateful negative stereotype, he is a hard working immigrant that runs his own business and, as shown in the many episodes that focus on him, he also leads a well rounded life with his own challenges and problems to overcome. I won't go into a complete analysis of Shukla's argument here. The book is only 39 pages, so I encourage you to get his argument in his own voice.