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Padma Rao Sundarji aka Padma Rao (born 17 June 1959 in Chennai, India) is an Indian author[1] and an international correspondent[2] based in New Delhi, India.[3]
Career
editAs a journalist[2], Rao has worked for ARD German Television Network, Geo[4], Outlook in New York, Deutsche Welle in Germany, NDR German Radio, Deutsche Presse Agentur, The Pioneer[5], Der Speigel[6] and as special correspondent for McClatchyDC in India.[7][8]
During her stint in Der Spiegel till 2012, Rao interviewed nearly all heads of government and rebel leaders of the times[9], including the formerly underground Maoist leader Prachanda in Nepal and Velupillai Prabhakaran of the LTTE.[2]
Her work has appeared in syndicate in the New York Times[10] and the Herald Tribune. Rao has freelanced for various international and Indian publications like Die Welt, Handelsblatt, SonntagsZeitung, Wiener Zeitung, and writes both in English and German.[11]
She worked as a Senior International Correspondent at Wion television India[12] and then joined Hindustan Times, India[13] in 2018 as National Editor.[3]
Publications
edit- Rao co-authored a travel guide on South India for Merian Super Travel, Germany[14] in 1994 (ISBN 978-3774201132).
- Rao was the long-standing South Asia bureau chief of German news magazine Der Spiegel[15], during which time, the Sri Lankan civil war[16] was an intensive part of her beat.[2] She wrote the book Sri Lanka: The New Country[1] (ISBN 978-93-5177-030-5), HarperCollins India[17], 2015 covering the thirty year long civil war[18] that ended in 2009.[19]
- Essay on Diego Garcia in Foreign Correspondent: 50 years[20] (Penguin India, 2009).
- Essay on India-Germany relations in Rising India: Europe’s Partner?[21] (Weißensee Verlag, Germany).
References
edit- ^ a b Sri Lanka: The New Country. India: HarperCollins Publishers India. 2015. ISBN 978-93-5177-030-5.
- ^ a b c d "Padma Rao's Srilanka". Ceylon Today. 29 Feb 2016.
- ^ a b "Revisiting Padma Rao Sundarji's Srilanka". Daily Mirror. 3 Dec 2019.
- ^ Geo Indien. Gruner & Jahr-Verlag. 1993. ISBN 3570017753.
- ^ "Padma Rao Sundarji". The Pioneer. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "An Indian journalist strikes back at Der Spiegel -Living News , Firstpost". Firstpost. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "Padma Rao Sundarji". IBN News. 2015.
- ^ "The Island of the Day Before". Open Magazine. 29 Apr 2015.
- ^ "Padma Rao". Sunday Times, Srilanka. 12 Jul 2015.
- ^ "Padma Rao Sundarji". The New York Times. 8 Dec 2015. ISSN 0362-4331.
- ^ "Authors - Padma Rao Sundarji". Juggernaut.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "padma-rao". WION. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "HT's National Editor Padma Rao moves on - Exchange4media". Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ South India for Merian Super Travel. Graefe und Unzer Verlag. 1994. ISBN 978-3774201132.
- ^ "Indian journalist — a target of racism?". Hindustan Times. 2013-03-16. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ IANS (2015-06-25). "Book Review: Sri Lanka: The New Country by Padma Rao Sundarji". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "Padma Rao Sundarji". HarperCollins Publishers India. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "Untold stories of Sri Lanka". The Express Tribune. 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "Book review: Sri Lanka, a nation that underwent a remarkable bloodbath". Hindustan Times. 2015-04-11. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ 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.
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