{"id":78045,"date":"2019-04-30T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=78045"},"modified":"2019-04-30T13:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:52:51","slug":"book-release-on-my-own-terms-by-vasu-varadhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/book-release-on-my-own-terms-by-vasu-varadhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Release: ‘On My Own Terms’ by Vasu Varadhan"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York University professor Vasu Varadhan\u2019s memoir is an inspiring story of an immigrant\u2019s struggle to forge an identity of her own amidst the upheavals of geographical and cultural displacement. On My Own Terms<\/em> is also an uplifting testament to a remarkable woman\u2019s struggle to maintain individuality, integrity and freedom as an accomplished scholar inside the orthodox Hindu culture in which she was born and raised.<\/p>\n

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Vasu Varadhan\u00a0(Photo: S.R.S. Varadhan)<\/em><\/p>\n

In moments of quiet despair following the death of her eldest son in the September 11 attack on The World Trade Center, Vasu Varadhan thought of her mother and father, a United Nations diplomat and champion of nuclear disarmament during the Cold War who died at the early age of 50; her childhood in New York City and young adulthood in India, and her arranged marriage at the age of 16. Circling back into personal family history led to her decision to write this memoir, a search for better understanding of life\u2019s joys and sorrows.<\/p>\n

Vasu Varadhan holds a PhD in Media Studies and is currently a faculty member of New York University\u2019s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She teaches a wide range of interdisciplinary seminars on media theory, identity in a multi-cultural world, ancient Indian literature and South Asian literature with a special focus on emerging Indian writers in the diaspora.<\/p>\n

Her husband, S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, is the Jay Gould Professor of Science, Professor of Mathematics, at New York University\u2019s Courant Institute. His many awards include the Abel Prize (2007) and the National Medal of Sciences (2010).<\/p>\n

“An elegant memoir that delicately recreates a vanished Indian world while charting the growth of an individual sensibility on the margins of cultures,” says\u00a0Pankaj Mishra, Indian essayist and novelist, winner of the 2014 Windham\u2013Campbell Prize for non-fiction.<\/p>\n

“It is beautifully written and the prose flows with liquid ease. I particularly enjoyed the weaving of personal details and the social milieu that you portray\u2014Sampurna Sastry, National Leather works, the sharp eye of Muslim tailors, Luz Avenue and Nageshwar Rao Park, and societal protocols of the time. Of course, the nuances of the epistolary romance were captured with such finesse\u2014a delight to read,” commented\u00a0Radha Sarma Hegde Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University.<\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong>\u00a0On My Own Terms
\nPublication Date:<\/strong> November 27, 2018
\nISBN:<\/strong> 13:978-0-9994664-4-5
\nTrim:<\/strong> 6 x 9
\nPage Count:<\/strong> 225 pages
\nPrice:<\/strong> $15.95 (paperback); $9.95 (ebook) Buy it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York University professor Vasu Varadhan\u2019s memoir is an inspiring story of an immigrant\u2019s struggle to forge an identity of her own amidst the upheavals of geographical and cultural displacement. On My Own Terms is also an uplifting testament to a remarkable woman\u2019s struggle to maintain individuality, integrity and freedom as an accomplished scholar inside…<\/p>\n

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