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Santha Rama Rau

Santha Rama Rau

Biographical

One way to get biographical information about an author is to check his or her listings at the Library of Congress. Why not take a look at Rama Rau's title list there and see what you learn?

Rama Rau attended Wellesley College and this page has a bit of biographical information about her. Do you recognize anyone else on this list?

Rama Rau contributed to both stage and film versions of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India. Here's her take on her experience while working on the film.

Cultural

Interested in learning more about the filming of A Passage to India? This is a very thorough review of the film written after its release on DVD, which makes mention of Rama Rau's contribution.

Rama Rau and The Cooking of India get a mention in this essay, which debates the frightening topic of chile pepper addiction.

Nora Ephron, in a commencement address at Wellesley in 1996, had this to say about Santha Rama Rau, the speaker at her commencement address as a student there in 1962.

This is Rama Rau's listing in the Wellesley College Commencement archives. Do you recognize anyone else on the list? What would be some of the ways you could go about finding out more about them?

Bibliographical

Here's a bit more information about the stage adaptation of A Passage to India that the author wrote.

Looking for a quote by Rama Rau to use in your work? Take a look at this quotation of hers about writing.

Rama Rau has written a cookbook called The Cooking of India. Here's some information about the book.