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Shilpa Raj
The daughter of a housemaid and an elephant chaser from a South Indian village, Shilpa Raj believes now that from the beginning she was destined to take a different path. At sixtee...view moreThe daughter of a housemaid and an elephant chaser from a South Indian village, Shilpa Raj believes now that from the beginning she was destined to take a different path. At sixteen, her need for self-discovery drove her to begin writing this moving memoir of her turbulent past.
Shilpa Raj completed high school with distinction in 2011—the first in her family to do so—and received a Master’s degree in psychological counseling.view less