Padma Rao Sundarji
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Padma Rao Sundarji aka Padma Rao is an Indian author[1] and an international correspondent[2] based in New Delhi, India.[3]
Career[]
Rao was the India correspondent for GEO magazine[4] (Germany's special issue (ISBN 3570017753) on India in 1992–1993 and also co-authored a travel guide on South India for Meridien Super Travel[5] – Germany in 1994 ISBN 978-3774201132.[3]
Rao was the long standing South Asian bureau chief of German news magazine Der Spiegel,[6] during which time, the Srilankan civil war was an intensive part of her beat.[7] She wrote the book Srilanka: The New Country (ISBN 978-93-5177-030-5)[1] Harper Collins India[8] covering the thirty year long civil war that ended in 2009[2][9]
During her stint at Der Spiegel,[10] she was chosen to interview heads of the government[11] and rebel leaders of the times[12] including the formerly underground Maoist leader Prachanda,[2] Vellupillai Prabhakaran of the LTTE.[2][13]
Rao writes in English and German[14] and her work has appeared in syndicate in The New York Times,[15] She worked as special correspondent[16] at Wion Television India[12] before moving on to Hindustan Times as national editor.[17]
Award[]
Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award 2015 for Best Literary Personality of the year (Pehchan, New Delhi)[18][19][dubious ][citation needed]
Other publications[]
- Essay on Diego Garcia in Foreign Correspondent: 50 years - Penguin India, 2009.[20]
- Essay on India-German relations in Rising India: Europe's Partner? - Weissensee Verlag, Germany[21]
References[]
- ^ a b Srilanka: The new country. India: HarperCollins. 2015. ISBN 978-93-5177-030-5.
- ^ a b c d "Padma Rao's Sri Lanka". Ceylon Today. 29 Feb 2016.
- ^ a b "An Interview with Padma Rao Sundarji". Newsfirst Sri Lanka. 9 Jul 2015.
- ^ Geo Indien. Gruner & Jahr-Verlag. 1993. ISBN 3570017753.
- ^ South India for Meridien Super Travel. Graefe und Unzer Verlag. 1994. ISBN 978-3774201132.
- ^ "An Indian journalist strikes back at Der Spiegel -Living News, Firstpost". Firstpost. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
- ^ "Revisiting Padma Rao's Sri Lanka". Daily Mirror. 3 Dec 2019.
- ^ "Book review: Sri Lanka, a nation that underwent a remarkable bloodbath". Hindustan Times. 2015-04-11. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
- ^ IANS (2015-06-25). "Book Review: Sri Lanka: The New Country by Padma Rao Sundarji". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
- ^ "Indian journalist — a target of racism?". Hindustan Times. 2013-03-16. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
- ^ "Padma Rao Sundarji interviews John Sevilla". Outlook India. 15 May 1996.
- ^ a b "WION's Senior International Correspondent Padma Rao Sundarji travels to Killinochi to speak to an ex-LTTE child soldier". WION Television India. 19 May 2017.
- ^ "Untold Stories of Sri Lanka". The Express Tribune. 26 Mar 2016.
- ^ "Padma Rao Sundarji". IBN News. Mar 2015.
- ^ "Padma Rao Sundarji". The New York Times. 8 Dec 2005. ISSN 0362-4331.
- ^ "Padma Rao Sundarji". Sunday Times, Srilanka. 12 Jul 2015.
- ^ "HT's National Editor Padma Rao moves on - Exchange4media". Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
- ^ "Award winner Senior Journalist Padma Rao Sundarji". Tillotoma, Srilanka. 1 Apr 2021.
- ^ "Delhiberations: Journalism 101". The Deccan Chronicle. 30 Nov 2016.
- ^ Foreign Correspondent : Fifty Years of reporting South Asia. India: Penguin India. 2009. ISBN 978-0143067559.
- ^ Voll, Klaus (2006). Rising India: Europe's Partner?. Berlin. ISBN 978-3-89998-098-1.
Further reading[]
- Kalarickal, Jasmin (3 April 2013). "Ex-Korrespondentin klagt gegen Spiegel: Die falsche Muttersprache". Die Tageszeitung (in German).
- Living people
- 20th-century Indian women writers
- People from New Delhi
- 21st-century Indian women writers