Chandru Murthi

The Doctor from Madras

Chandru Murthi was born in India and has spent most of his life in the United States. He is an engineer and sustainability consultant by training. This left-brain activity has been counterbalanced by working in theatre for many years, maintaining a difficult-to-categorize blog, and writing this, his first novel.

This story is a highly fictionalized version of dysfunctional family history, which saved him from having to invent many major plot points.

A longtime resident of San Francisco, he has lived in Brooklyn for almost two decades.

He is the author of the article, “The Poet, the Physicist, and the Immigrant,” a true story of the colorful characters involved in the creation of the first commercial database in the United States. He has just completed his second novel, an eco-thriller, The Trouble With Waste, set in New York City.