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Padma Rao Sundarji aka Padma Rao is an Indian author and an international correspondent based in New Delhi, India.
Career
Rao was the India correspondent for GEO magazine on India in 1992–1993 and also co-authored a travel guide on South India for Meridien Super Travel – Germany in 1994 ISBN 978-3774201132.
Rao was the long-standing South Asian bureau chief of German news magazine Der Spiegel, during which time, the Sri Lankan civil war was an intensive part of her beat. She wrote the book Srilanka: The New Country (ISBN 978-93-5177-030-5) HarperCollins India covering the thirty year long civil war that ended in 2009
During her stint at Der Spiegel, she was chosen to interview heads of the government and rebel leaders of the times including the formerly underground Maoist leader Prachanda, Vellupillai Prabhakaran of the LTTE.
Rao writes in English and German and her work has appeared in syndicate in The New York Times, She worked as special correspondent at Wion Television India before moving on to Hindustan Times as national editor.
Award
Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award 2015 for Best Literary Personality of the year (Pehchan, New Delhi)
Other publications
- Essay on Diego Garcia in Foreign Correspondent: 50 years – Penguin India, 2009.
- Essay on India-German relations in Rising India: Europe's Partner? - Weissensee Verlag, Germany
References
- ^ Srilanka: The new country. India: HarperCollins. 2015. ISBN 978-93-5177-030-5.
- ^ "Padma Rao's Sri Lanka". Ceylon Today. 29 February 2016.
- ^ "An Interview with Padma Rao Sundarji". Newsfirst Sri Lanka. 9 July 2015.
- Vollmert, Wolfgang (1993). Indien (in German). Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-570-01775-3. OCLC 75429933.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - South India for Meridien Super Travel. Graefe und Unzer Verlag. 1994. ISBN 978-3774201132.
- "An Indian journalist strikes back at Der Spiegel". Firstpost. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- "Revisiting Padma Rao's Sri Lanka". Daily Mirror. 3 December 2019.
- "Book review: Sri Lanka, a nation that underwent a remarkable bloodbath". Hindustan Times. 11 April 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- IANS (25 June 2015). "Book Review: Sri Lanka: The New Country by Padma Rao Sundarji". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- "Indian journalist — a target of racism?". Hindustan Times. 16 March 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
- "Padma Rao Sundarji interviews John Sevilla". Outlook India. 15 May 1996.
- ^ "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 March 2016.
- "Padma Rao Sundarji". IBN News. March 2015.
- "Padma Rao Sundarji". The New York Times. 8 December 2005. ISSN 0362-4331.
- "Padma Rao Sundarji". Sunday Times, Srilanka. 12 July 2015.
- "HT's National Editor Padma Rao moves on – Exchange4media". Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- "Award winner Senior Journalist Padma Rao Sundarji". Tillotoma, Srilanka. 1 April 2021.
- "Delhiberations: Journalism 101". The Deccan Chronicle. 30 November 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.
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Further reading
- Kalarickal, Jasmin (3 April 2013). "Ex-Korrespondentin klagt gegen Spiegel: Die falsche Muttersprache". Die Tageszeitung (in German).