Sessions
The Chola Tigers: The Avengers of Somnath
Amish with Mani Rao
Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons
Anand Neelakantan with Mani Rao
i am iamb: Poetry Readings
James Shea, Kazim Ali, Mani Rao, Shikha Malaviya, Suchi Govindarajan anchored by Jeet Thayil
Bio
Mani Rao is the author of thirteen poetry books including So That You Know (HarperCollins 2025), and four books in translation including Kalidasa- Selected Poetry and Drama (HarperCollins 2025), Bhagavad Gita – God’s Song, Saundarya Lahari- Wave of Beauty. She was a writing resident at the Iowa International Writing Program, Omi Ledig House and International Poetry Studies Institute, Canberra, and has an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in religious studies; her research on mantras is in Living Mantra: Mantra, Deities and Visionary Experience Today (Palgrave Macmillan 2019).