Sujatha Gidla
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Sujatha Gidla is an Indian-born American author, memoirist, and transit worker based in New York City. She studied applied physics at the Regional Engineering College (REC), Warangal, and conducted research at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras before emigrating to the United States in 1990. She gained international acclaim for her debut book, Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (2017), a non-fiction memoir chronicling her family's history, the realities o
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New York City, New York, United States / Andhra Pradesh, India
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• Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York City Subway Conductor)
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Author)
• Ayesha Pande Literary
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Sujatha Gidla is an Indian-born American author, memoirist, and transit worker based in New York City. She studied applied physics at the Regional Engineering College (REC), Warangal, and conducted research at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras before emigrating to the United States in 1990. She gained international acclaim for her debut book, Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (2017), a non-fiction memoir chronicling her family's history, the realities of caste oppression, Dalit resistance, and left-wing political movements in post-independence India. In her professional career outside of writing, she made history as the first Indian woman hired as a subway conductor for the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).