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Kavitha Rao

Who were the people and ideas that inspired revolutionaries MN Roy and Virendranath Chattopadhyay?

An excerpt from ‘Spies, Lies and Allies: The Extraordinary Lives of Chatto and Roy’, by Kavitha Rao.

Kavitha Rao
· Mar 04, 2025 · 08:30 am
This book recovers the stories of India’s first women doctors, often ignored by history

In this excerpt from Kavitha Rao’s ‘Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine’, the story of Rukhmabai Raut.

Kavitha Rao
· Jul 02, 2021 · 08:30 am
This book about books (and readers) can only make you love books (all over again)

Where have bibliophiles like the one in this excerpt from Kavitha Rao’s novel gone?

Kavitha Rao
· Dec 12, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why PD James wasn’t just a great writer of detective fiction. She was a great writer

She soared above the conventions of the crime novel to create a canon that earned her a large and loyal readership.

Kavitha Rao
· Nov 29, 2014 · 12:30 am