Biracial Desi Bachchas with Shelly Anand

Shelly Anand is all of the things - a human rights lawyer and author of Laxmi’s Mooch, a joyful, body-positive picture book about a young Indian American girl's journey to accept her body hair and celebrate her heritage, after being teased about her mustache. Shelly is also a mummy, a biwi, a beti and a saheli.

She's my saheli, a friend I’ve had some pretty deep conversations with during these complicated COVID times. 

In this episode we talk about biracial bachhas, Georgia, gol gappe, assimilation and nazaar. We talk about a lot of other things too!

You can pre-order Laxmi's Mooch here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610852/laxmis-mooch-by-shelly-anand-illustrated-by-nabi-h-ali/

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