Usha Alexander is the author of the novels The Legend of Virinara and Only the Eyes Are Mine. She once worked for many years at Apple in the San Francisco Bay Area. For a while she lived in Vanuatu, a Pacific Island nation, where she taught high school science as a US Peace Corps volunteer. And many years before that, she lived for awhile in Germany. She retains an abiding interest in science, anthropology, and history. Usha grew up in Pocatello, Idaho, a remote little town in the Rocky Mountain region of the USA. Though currently residing near Delhi, she carries her home within her self. Visit her website for more.
Selected posts:
- Unraveling the Climate Crisis: A column in The Wire about how our planet has shaped us, and how we, in turn, have shaped it.
- Earth’s Changing Climate
- A Planetary Perspective
- Becoming Human: Forged by Fire
- Becoming Human: Shaped by Ice
- The Human Animal in the Circle of Life
- Modern Myths of Prehistory
- Of Mice and Men, Energy and Cancer
- The Agricultural Revolution: An Alternate Telling
- Our Insatiable Quest for Fire
- Fossil Fuels and Modern Myths
- Is There Hope?
- What Can I Do About Climate Change?
- On Climate Truth and Fiction: A monthly column at 3 Quarks Daily about environmental distress, the human experience, and storytelling.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About The Weather
- A Story of Fire and Ice
- Of Wanderers and Nomads
- Tales From a Changing World
- Lost and Found in Eden
- Modern Myths of Human Power
- Our Moment on Earth
- Views of Future Earth
- Upheaval and Migration
- On Progress as Human Destiny
- Of Gods and Men and Human Destiny
- Musings on the Anthropocene
- Stories of Wealth and Distribution
- Toward a Polyphony of Stories
- What a Way To Go
- Inside an Indian Family
- The Climate Crisis and India
- Stories About the End of the World
- On Writing: Discovering Virinara
- Storytelling as Life and Art
- When Fascists Are Not Evil
- 5 Things You Can Do About Air Pollution
- The Watchman’s Tale: A Review (3QD)
- Dispatches from India 2: On Hiring Domestic Help in India
- Dispatches from India 1: First Impressions
- Of Meenas, Migrants, and Medicine (3QD)
- An Indian-American in China (3QD)
- Endhiran (The Robot): A Review
- The Minangkabau: Mixing Islam and Matriarchy (3QD)
- The Other Swastika (3QD)
- Avatar: A Review
- This Way for the Gas, Ladies & Gentlemen: A Review
- Slumdog Millionaire: A Review
- Shantaram: A Review
- From the Outside, Looking In
- John Frum
- At the Foot of Mount Yasur
