Santha Rama Rau: The prolific wordsmith who wrote for the ‘New Yorker’ and was wooed by a mafia don
In her peripatetic life, the accomplished writer got many opportunities to observe major events and changemakers from up close. Courtesy: The Nikhil and Dottie Wagle Family Collection.
When she was six years old, Santha Rama Rau left India for the first time. Her father, Benegal Rama Rau, a civil servant, moved to England as the first Round Table Conference to discuss constitutional reforms in India got underway in 1930. For her, it was the beginning of a lifetime of travel, during which she wrote books and journalistic articles, had a ringside view of global events and met the changemakers of the time. Rau once told a newspaper that she lived in three-year cycles, spending “a year in New York, a city I adore, a year in India, and a year travelling”.
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Updated December 24, 2020, 12:00 p.m.
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ELLIS PAUL AT PASSIM Wednesday sees Club Passim hosting an Ellis Paul tribute night featuring a whole raftâs worth of local folkies; the next night Paul himself hosts a New Yearâs Eve party to close out 2021.
Dec. 31, 8 p.m.
Dec. 31, 10:30 p.m.
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BOSTON BAROQUE As in Decembers past, the ensemble will ring in the new year with performances on Dec. 31 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 1 at 3 p.m., this time featuring an encore broadcast of its vibrant New Yearâs concert from January 2019.