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] 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 Sri Lankan 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] HarperCollins 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]

Other publications

References

  1. 1 2 Srilanka: The new country. India: HarperCollins. 2015. ISBN 978-93-5177-030-5.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Padma Rao's Sri Lanka". Ceylon Today. 29 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 "An Interview with Padma Rao Sundarji". Newsfirst Sri Lanka. 9 July 2015.
  4. ↑ Vollmert, Wolfgang (1993). Indien (in German). Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-570-01775-3. OCLC 75429933.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ South India for Meridien Super Travel. Graefe und Unzer Verlag. 1994. ISBN 978-3774201132.
  6. ↑ "An Indian journalist strikes back at Der Spiegel". Firstpost. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Revisiting Padma Rao's Sri Lanka". Daily Mirror. 3 December 2019.
  8. ↑ "Book review: Sri Lanka, a nation that underwent a remarkable bloodbath". Hindustan Times. 11 April 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  9. ↑ IANS (25 June 2015). "Book Review: Sri Lanka: The New Country by Padma Rao Sundarji". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  10. ↑ "Indian journalist — a target of racism?". Hindustan Times. 16 March 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  11. ↑ "Padma Rao Sundarji interviews John Sevilla". Outlook India. 15 May 1996.
  12. 1 2 "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.
  13. ↑ "Untold Stories of Sri Lanka". The Express Tribune. 26 March 2016.
  14. ↑ "Padma Rao Sundarji". IBN News. March 2015.
  15. ↑ "Padma Rao Sundarji". The New York Times. 8 December 2005. ISSN 0362-4331.
  16. ↑ "Padma Rao Sundarji". Sunday Times, Srilanka. 12 July 2015.
  17. ↑ "HT's National Editor Padma Rao moves on – Exchange4media". Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  18. ↑ "Award winner Senior Journalist Padma Rao Sundarji". Tillotoma, Srilanka. 1 April 2021.
  19. ↑ "Delhiberations: Journalism 101". The Deccan Chronicle. 30 November 2016.
  20. ↑ Foreign Correspondent : Fifty Years of reporting South Asia. India: Penguin India. 2009. ISBN 978-0143067559.
  21. ↑ Voll, Klaus (2006). Rising India: Europe's Partner?. Berlin. ISBN 978-3-89998-098-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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