“Suburban Sahibs: Three immigrant families and their passage from India to America”

“In a captivating work of narrative nonfiction, journalist S. Mitra Kalita traces the evolution of the suburb from a destination for new arrivals to a launching pad for them. She focuses on three waves of immigration in the post Civil Rights era through the stories of three families: theKotharis, Patels and Sarmas. Their experience offers a window into the America that has become: a nation of suburbs, a nation o f immigrants.” - www.desiwriter.com

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Letter from Mitra Kalita, author of Suburban Sahibs:

Hi, all:
I'd like to thank you for your support of my book, "Suburban Sahibs: Three immigrant families and their passage from India to America." Initially published by Rutgers University Press, the book sold out of its first edition, is currently in a second printing and should be out in paperback next year. None of that would have been possible without community support and favorable press (including a New York Times book review).

I'm writing to ask for your help now as the book launches in South Asia and Singapore, published by Penguin- India. If you are a journalist in those countries, please consider doing a review or story on the book. If you live there, please approach your local bookstores and ask for the title. If you have family or media contacts on the subcontinent, please do forward this e-mail to them. If you are in Assam, please do alert them to my "local" roots as many bookstores in the northeast have yet to order the title...

For review copies (journalists only), contact: hemali.sodhi@penguin-india.com.

For interviews, feel free to contact me via e-mail at smkalita@yahoo.com or at 202-607-6836. If you need me to call you at an overseas number, please send me an e-mail and the best time to do so.

Below, I've included the blurb from the Penguin edition, a bio and a just-published piece in the Economic Times (of India). More information is available at www.desiwriter.com.

Thank you again for all your help. Best regards,

Mitra (smkalita@yahoo.com or call 202-607-6836)

About the author: On March 13, S. Mitra Kalita married Nitin Mukul, son of Kiran and Satish Mukul of Longmeadow, Mass., in a Hindu wedding ceremony in New Jersey. On May 8, the couple celebrated with a reception, also in New Jersey. Nitin is a fine artist (his paintings can be viewed at www.nitinmukul.com) and he works as the art director for K12, an educational company in McLean, VA.