Rao, Nirupama Menon

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• Rain rising, 2004:t.p. (Nirupama Menon Rao) jkt. (career diplomat; fellow of Harvard U.)
• Telling it on the mountain India and China and the politics of history, viewed Dec. 21, 2015:title page, pdf document (Nirupama Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow, The Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi)
• Wikipedia WWW site, viewed Dec. 21, 2015:artlcle web page (Nirupama Rao; Nirupama Menon Pao; born December 6, 1950, Malappuram, Kerals, India; BA in English, 1970, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore; she served in the Indian Embassy in Vienna, Austria from 1976 to 1977; Ambassador of India to Peru and Bolivia; served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indian Embassy in Moscow from 1998 to 1999; High Commissioner for India to Sri Lanka; Ambassador of India to China; Rao became India's second woman Foreign Secretary, on Ausust 1, 2009; Ambassador of India to the United States of America, 2011-2013; she has written a book of poetry, named Rain Rising; was the Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow at Brown University; November 2014, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi announced the conferment of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship on Nirupama Rao in connection with her book project (currently in writing) entitled "The Politics of History: India and China, 1949 to 1962")
• The fractured Himalaya, 2022:title page (Nirupama Rao)

Nirupama Menon Rao (born 6 December 1950) is a retired civil servant of 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service cadre who served as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011, as well as being India's Ambassador to the United States, China and Sri Lanka (High Commissioner) during her career. In July 2009, she became the second woman (after Chokila Iyer) to hold the post of India's Foreign Secretary, the head of the Indian Foreign Service. In her career she served in several capacities including, Minister of Press, Information and Culture in Washington DC, Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow, stints in the MEA as Joint Secretary, East Asia and External Publicity, the latter position making her the first woman spokesperson of the MEA, Chief of Personnel, Ambassador to Peru and China, and High Commissioner to Sri Lanka.