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]

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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] [ dubious discuss ][ citation needed ]

Other publications

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References

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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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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