Bio
Padma Rao Sundarji is a veteran foreign correspondent based in New Delhi. She was the longstanding South Asia bureau chief of German news magazine Der Spiegel till 2012, during which Sri Lanka was an intensive part of her beat. She has also worked for ARD German Television, ZDF, Geo and Outlook in New York and DPA, McClatchyDC in Delhi. Her work has appeared in syndicate in the New York Times and the Herald Tribune and in anthologies of writing by foreign correspondents in Germany and India. She currently freelances for various international and Indian publication and is a frequent guest on Indian television networks as a senior commentator on South Asian current affairs. Padma writes in both German and English. “Sri Lanka: The New Country” , published by Harper Collins India is her first book and has received excellent reviews in the leading publications of both India and Sri Lanka.