User:ShravanthiRK/Padma Rao Sundarji

Padma Rao Sundarji aka Padma Rao (born 17 June 1959 in Chennai, India) is an Indian author and an international correspondent based in New Delhi, India.

Career
As a journalist, Rao has worked for ARD German Television Network, Geo , Outlook in New York, Deutsche Welle in Germany, NDR German Radio, Deutsche Presse Agentur, The Pioneer , Der Speigel and as special correspondent for McClatchyDC in India.

During her stint in Der Spiegel till 2012, Rao interviewed nearly all heads of government and rebel leaders of the times, including the formerly underground Maoist leader Prachanda in Nepal and Velupillai Prabhakaran of the LTTE.

Her work has appeared in syndicate in the New York Times 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.

She worked as a Senior International Correspondent at Wion television India and then joined Hindustan Times, India in 2018 as National Editor.

Publications

 * Rao co-authored a travel guide on South India for Merian Super Travel, Germany in 1994 (ISBN 978-3774201132 ).
 * Rao was the long-standing South Asia 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 Sri Lanka: The New Country (ISBN 978-93-5177-030-5 ), HarperCollins India , 2015 covering the thirty year long civil war that ended in 2009.


 * Essay on Diego Garcia in Foreign Correspondent: 50 years (Penguin India, 2009).
 * Essay on India-Germany relations in Rising India: Europe’s Partner? (Weißensee Verlag, Germany).