Santha Rama Rau

Santha Rama Rau (Kashmiri: शान्ता राम राव) (24 January 1923 – 21 April 2009)[1] is best known as a Kashmiri Indian travel writer

Ms. Rama Rau wrote novels and adapted the E. M. Forster novel “A Passage to India” for the stage, but she was largely a travel writer, a chronicler of journeys in Asia, Africa and the former Soviet Union for publications like The New Yorker, Harper’s, Holiday and The New York Times Magazine. Many of her stories, written with stylish simplicity in the first person, were collected as books that read almost as autobiography. The titles included “East of Home” (1950), “View to the Southeast” (1957) and “My Russian Journey” (1959). She also wrote an autobiography, “Gifts of Passage” (1961), that reads like almost like a travelogue.