Background
RAMA, Santha was born on January 24, 1923 in Madras, Tamil Nadu. Daughter of late Sir Benegal Rama Rau and Lady Rama Rau.
RAMA, Santha was born on January 24, 1923 in Madras, Tamil Nadu. Daughter of late Sir Benegal Rama Rau and Lady Rama Rau.
Saint Paul’s Girls’ School, London, and Wellesley College, United States of America.
Teacher Hani Freedom School, Tokyo. English teacher at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York 1971-1973. Honorary doctorates from Bates, Brandeis, Roosevelt and Russell Sage Colleges.
Achievement.
The House 1955, View to the South-East 1957, My Russian Journey 1959, A Passage to India (dramatization of East. M. Forster novel) 1962, Gifts of Passage (autobiog.) 1962, The Cooking of India 1969, The Adventuress 1971, A Princess Remembers 1976, An Inheritance 1979.
Married 1st Faubion Bowers in 1951 (divorced in 1966), one son. Married 2nd Gurdon West. Wattles.