Arati Kumar-Rao

Arati Kumar-Rao is an Indian author and photographer. In 2023, she released her book Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the Brink and was added to the BBC's 100 Women list.

Career

Arati Kumar-Rao was born in Bengaluru. She studied for an MBA at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, a Master of Education at Arizona State University and an MSc in Physics at the University of Pune, then worked at Intel.^[1] She decided in 2013 to leave her job and write about landscapes.^[2] On her Tumblr blog, River Diaries: Brahmaputra, she profiled the Brahmaputra River.^[3] She walked with writer Paul Salopek through the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan.^[4] In 2023, she released her book Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the Brink and was added to the BBC's 100 Women list.^[5][6]

Selected works

• Kumar-Rao, Arati (2023). Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink. India: Picador. ISBN 978-9395624435.