About
Kavitha Rao is an author and journalist based in London. She has written three books and is working on her fourth. Her latest,"Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine" was published by Westland in India, and will shortly be published by Jacaranda Books in the UK. She wrote on current affairs, environment, the arts, culture, people and places for several international and national papers. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the National, Time, the South China Morning Post, the Writer, Marie Claire US, Womensenews, Elle India, Vogue India, Caravan, Open and several others. She also wrote Terra India, a popular column for the Guardian on the environment in India, which won an Asian Environmental Journalism Award for best Environmental Blogger of 2013-2014, awarded by the Singapore Environment Council. Kavitha also wrote a monthly column for the Hindu on all things Turkish. You can read samples here.
Kavitha has lived and worked in eight countries, and reported from several others, so brings a truly international perspective to her work.
Kavitha is also the co-author of “Everything You Wanted to Write About Freelance Journalism (but didn’t know whom to ask)”, a guide to breaking into freelance journalism, published by Westland. It’s aimed at everyone from complete beginners to more seasoned pros. Buy the book here.
Kavitha's novel "The Librarian" was published by Kitaab Publishers in 2017. Buy the book here.
Kavitha is a trainer for Electric Airwaves, the UK's largest media training company.
In a former life, Kavitha used to be a lawyer, and is a graduate of the National Law School of India University ( NLSIU).