Shakuntala Rajagopal

BIO: Shakuntala Rajagopal

I, Shakuntala Rajagopal, (Sivaraam,) was born in Trivandrum, Kerala, South India.

I have stated more than once that I had to grow up twice. The first time, in the bosom of a warm extended family, growing up was a pleasant experience.

As a young bride, I followed my husband Raj to Berwyn, a suburb of Chicago, and had to grow up all over again. In our early years here without any family, life was hard and sometimes lonely. Our love and devotion to each other enabled us to make life here an adventure and a pleasant experience.

After a long and distinguished career in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, I retired to be an active grandmother, while pursuing my passions of writing, painting, and gardening. I came here with an attitude; that I could do anything I wanted to in life. That has helped in my evolution as a Matriarch to my three daughters, two sons-in-law, three grandsons, and to an extended family numbering fifty-four in the United States alone.

My novel, RADHA, was published in November 2007.

Excerpts from my two Memoirs appear in Anthologies, Tangled Webs, and Overcoming.

“Song of the Mountains, My Pilgrimage to Maa Ganga” and the journey in the Himalayas, came out in April 2015.

My memoir, “Transplanted, from 110 degrees in the shade to 10 degrees below zero in the sun,” was released in 2019. ]

An e-book for children, “My Magical Journey with My Ammoo Peacock” was released on Amazon Kindle on December 27th, 2020

https://www.shakuraj.com