Silicon Castles .. The book.

Sreedevi Krishnan, a former professor of Political Science has published several short stories and articles in various magazines and newspapers in India and abroad.

In her novel, Silicon Castles, a string of random events control and connect the lives of three immigrants in the Silicon Valley - Arun, a South Indian Brahmin engineer with a middle class background... Kris, a flamboyant engineer body-shopped to the US... and Abbie, an illegal immigrant involved in drug trafficking.

The story revolves around Arun's relationship with his US born wife, Dr. Lakshmi and the challenges that they face, adding up to the inevitable but surprise ending.

This absorbing story which is meant to inform, entertain, puzzle and disturb the readers is not just all fiction - most of it is true.

Adyarite authors book on Indian diaspora in the US - Adayar Times