Raj Pandya decided to write about his life story - a universal one - that has a narrative that transcends the narrow boundaries of a single culture or community. The book is called "Chronicles of a Reluctant Immigrant - A Cross-cultural Journey".
After Raj Pandja moves to Canada as a 29-year-old graduate student at the University of Toronto, he met and fell in love with Margaret, an Ontario-born woman. They were married in India in 1964. They lived there for 10 years. In 1974, he realized that the universities were likely not immune to the bureaucracy, politics and influence peddling that were becoming so pervasive in India.
“If I wanted to salvage and advance my professional career I had little choice but to immigrate to Canada and restart my professional life there. It was a choice which I made very ‘reluctantly’ because it required that I leave behind the continuity of my life style which I had known intimately, and which offered comfort and stability among my extended family, my community, my culture, my homeland and my heritage – hence the choice of the book title,” says Pandya.
He moved his family of four to Canada in 1974. The children were only four and nine years of age, so they did not retain many memories of their Indian ancestry.
“The book evolved from the my desire to leave a written record of my life’s journey prior to and after meeting Margaret so that their progeny could trace the source of their genetic pool and the story behind it,” says Raj Pandya. 
Some of Pandya’s friends, who had more literary credentials, suggested he make the story have a cross-cultural dimension in the ‘Literary Non-fiction’ or ‘Creative Non-fiction’ rather than a simple memoir.
This autobiographical journey is a multi-dimensioned narrative encompassing a many themes. 
“It is the story of a well-educated man who is frustrated and disheartened because he is unable to find professional fulfillment in his country of birth, and reluctantly looks to the West for better opportunities, where he finally immigrates and succeeds in salvaging his moribund professional career and earns the recognition he deserves,” he explains.
The book is currently available from most online book retailers in e-book, soft cover and hard cover versions. Pandya would eventually like it to be translated in Hindi.