![]() ![]() After extensive traveling through Asia and a bit of Africa and Europe, the couple settled in New York City, New York. ![]() While in Tokyo, Japan, she met her future husband, an American, Faubion Bowers. When India won its independence in 1947, Rama Rau's father was appointed as his nation's first ambassador to Japan. The incident was recounted in Rama Rau's short memoir entitled "By Any Other Name". They walked home, and never returned to that school. The environment there they found to be condescending, as their teacher told them that "Indians cheat". Santha's name was changed to Cynthia and her sister's was changed to Pamela. When aged 5 and a half, with her 8-year-old sister Premila, she briefly attended an Anglo-Indian School where the teacher anglicized their names. In her early years, Rama Rau lived in an India under British rule. ![]() While Santha's father was a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin from Canara whose mother-tongue was Konkani, her mother was a Kashmiri Brahmin from the far north of India, who had however grown up in Hubli. Santha Rama Rau (24 January 1923 – 21 April 2009) was an Indian-born American writer. ![]() Wellesley College, Wellesley, MassachusettsĪ Passage to India (1960) (play adaptation) Madras, British India (now Chennai, India) ![]()
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