"Never dim your light"

In which my son interviews one of his favorite authors

A few years ago, I encountered a new children’s book by a recent acquaintance of mine. “Always Anjali,” by the actor and producer Sheetal Sheth, may have been a picture book aimed at people a few decades younger than I, but it hit home hard. It’s a book about what happens when people mispronounce — and, in fact, dispronounce — names they feel don’t belo…