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Vikram Rao

Vikram Rao is an oddity, an engineer who enjoys writing. His first exposure to this was at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where in his first year he helped found the campus monthly Campastimes. He was recognized at commencement for his column Caricatures. One of his books was dedicated to Campastimes, rather than to a person. His first book was dedicated to his grandmother, a pioneering educator. His book 'A Stranger in No Land' is a lighthearted collection of vignettes. The style is a throwback to the Campastimes days when the contributors indulged in respectful irreverence (whRead More...

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A Stranger in No Land

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A 21-year-old from the all-boys (at the time) Indian college, IIT Madras, arrived at Stanford University in 1965. He was immediately confronted with the sexually permissive milieu, presumptions of Indian mysticism and conspicuous alcohol consumption, that was California in the sixties. Cultural assimilation had begun.

His nomadic childhood in India, punctuated by parental moves every three years, had armed him with the tools of assimilation, because Ind

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Vikram Rao is an oddity, an engineer who enjoys writing. His first exposure to this was at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where in his first year he helped found the campus monthly Campastimes. He was recognized at commencement for his column Caricatures. One of his books was dedicated to Campastimes, rather than to a person. His first book was dedicated to his grandmother, a pioneering educator.
His book 'A Stranger in No Land' is a lighthearted collection of vignettes. The style is a throwback to the Campastimes days when the contributors indulged in respectful irreverence (while avoiding the ire of authorities). The theme is cultural assimilation. The result, he hopes, is entertainment.
His grandmother features in this book, as do many others who shaped his assimilative skills. Such shaping was essential because his life comprises a journey traversing many a cultural divide. In the early days this was driven by family moves every 3 years. After college in Madras, graduate school in California in the mid-sixties was the definition of culture shock. Later journeys were to the US east coast and Europe. He took notes when interesting things happened.

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