Mani Rao

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mani Rao
Occupation	Indian Poet
Date Of Birth	Feb 28, 1965(1965-02-28)
Age	59
Country	India
Horoscope	Aquarius

Mani Rao Biography

Mani Rao is one of the most popular and richest Indian poet who was born on February 28, 1965 in India. Mani Rao, born 28 February 1965, is an Indian poet. He is also an independent scholar who writes in English.

“Rao’s Bhagavad Gita (Autumn Hill/ Penguin, 2010/2011) shows how the original Sanskrit is translated using avant-garde techniques such as prosody, diction and mise-en-page. This results in a unique translation of this well-known philosophical text.

“Mani Rao has transformed the most famous spiritual poem in India to a multi- layered poem, giving shapes to multiple meanings and sounds to multiple forms. Just as Arjuna saw the universe in Krishna’s mouth and like the endless tree, the tree of life, which reveals its roots above and leaves below, Mani Rao has shown us this universe, this endless life with its supporting philosophy, as a poem to be perceived directly, intuitively, cutting through reason and linearity to arrive at the underlying undying poetry and grace of this epic work.”– Frederick Smith

“The great virtue of The Bhagavad Gita is courage, and in her luminous new translation, Rao is courageous indeed. Her lines venture to keep pace with the original, stride for stride, revelation for revelation. As Wittgenstein wrote, ‘courage is always original.” I can avow that Rao’s is the first truly original version of this sacred text to appear in decades.” – Donald Revell

Rao’s poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine,Fulcrum and Meanjin. (Bloodaxe Books 2008) Rao was a Visiting Fellow in the Iowa International Writing Program in 2005-2009, held the 2006 University of Iowa International Programs Writer-in-Residence fellowship and wrote residencies in Omi Ledig House (2018 and 2019) and at International Poetry Studies Institute(IPSI) Canberra (2019). OutLoud was a Hong Kong-based poetry-reading group. She also contributed a segment to RTHK Radio 4.

Mani Rao Net Worth

Mani Rao is one of the richest Indian Poet from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mani Rao 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rao was a television and advertising executive from 1985 to 2004. She was the Senior Vice-President Marketing and Corporate Communications at Star (TV) Group Ltd. in Hong Kong. Rao was born in India, and she moved to Hong Kong in 1993. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and a Doctorate in Religious Studies (DCU University).

Rao’s poetry has been translated into Latin, Italian, Korean and Chinese. She has performed at literary festivals held in Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne, Vancouver, Chicago, Canberra, and the 2006 New York PEN World Voices.

“Here is a poet who works by daring – daring herself and the reader – to let go. She works in the dark with wit and knife and punch and paper scissors. She cuts and pastes, leaves gaping holes. Her work is a black masque in which parts of speech change parts, and all have the rightness of electronic rain. In the best poems you hear and feel and watch a current – which straight prose insulates as meaning–go crackling from naked line to line, making the unrepeatable pattern that is momentary sense. It’s like watching lightning fork. Mani Rao has a strong bleak voice. It’s the voice of the voyager: it discommodes, rattles you, shakes you down. Her poetry is sleepless and unwinking. You go to it for debriefing, for the jolt you expect from good writing. And you go back — or she pursues you. She is the hawker you thought you shook off in the square, she is your mechanic come home to spend the night. Let her in: you’ll live to regret it, but at least you’ll live.” – Allan Sealy

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Facts & Trivia

Mani Ranked on the list of most popular Indian poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Mani Rao celebrates birthday on February 28 of every year.