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Usha Alexander was born to Indian immigrants who came to the United States in the 1950s and settled in Pocatello, Idaho. After studying chemistry and anthropology, she joined the US Peace Corps, where she served as a science teacher in Vanuatu.

Usha wrote her first novel, Only the Eyes Are Mine, while living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Contact her at: usha at ushaalexander dot com

More by Usha Alexander


Essays:
The Minangkabau: Mixing Islam and Matriarchy
The Other Swastika
From the Outside, Looking In
On Telling Stories
Rediscovering Golem
Percy Julian, Chemist Extraordinaire

Book Review: Shantaram


Movie Reviews:
Avatar
Slumdog Millionaire

Travelogues:
John Frum
Forbidden City

At the Foot of Mount Yasur
An Indian-American in China

Where’s Usha? Click thumbnails below to see more photos of places she has recently visited.
 


Blois, France


Chambord, France


Bracieux, France


Cheverny, France


Chaumont sur Loire, France


Amboise, France


Chenonceau, France


Paris, France


Bukit Lawang, Sumatra


Berestagi, Sumatra

Lake Toba, Sumatra

Medan, Sumatra

Bukittinggi, Sumatra

Yogyakarta, Java

Borobodur, Java

Prambanan, Java


Tallin, Estonia
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Estonia/Tallinn/Tallinn.htm


Vilnius, Lithuania
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Lithuania/Vilnius/Vilnius.htm


Riga, Latvia
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Latvia/Riga/Riga.htm


Kaunas, Lithuania
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Lithuania/Kaunas/Kaunas.htm


Auschwitz, Poland
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Poland/Auschwitz/Auschwitz.htm


Krakow, Poland
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Poland/Krakow/Krakow.htm


Shanghai, China
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/China/Shanghai/Shanghai.html


Xian, China
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/China/Xian/Xian.html


The Great Wall, China
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/China/GreatWall/GreatWall.html


Beijing, China
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/China/Beijing/Beijing.html


Datong, China
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/China/Datong/Datong.html


Pingyao, China
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/China/Pingyao/Pingyao.html

       


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