Opinion: This TV mom changed everything
Opinion by Raakhee Mirchandani for CNN
Growing up, there were a lot of mothers on TV — Mrs. Brady, Roseanne, Angela Bower, Clair Huxtable, Aunt Viv and a host of other 1990s sitcom moms who all felt interchangeable to me. Some of them were tough, others were “cool moms” — but none of them were like my mama, an Indian immigrant raising an American girl.
I never searched for either of us on TV. Truthfully, as a kid, I never knew I could.