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Dr. Ranjani Rao is a trained scientist, a self-taught writer, yoga practitioner, and lifelong learner committed to an apprenticeship in observation.

With her experience of having lived in three countries and visited thirty and her scientific outlook, Ranjani writes insightful personal essays. Her award-winning commentaries and op-eds have appeared in print and digital magazines in the USA, India and Singapore.

Originally from Mumbai, India, Ranjani spent several years in the USA and lives in Singapore with her family. When not working or valiantly tackling the unread pile of books by her bedside, she goes for long walks in the nature reserve behind her home. She often returns with new ideas or pictures of roosters, wild boars and monkeys th
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Ranjani Rao Build and they will come, they said. So I did - and waited......
Ranjani Rao I write about the world around me. My ideas come from my family, conversations at work, observations on my commute and everything I read. In fact, I t…moreI write about the world around me. My ideas come from my family, conversations at work, observations on my commute and everything I read. In fact, I trouble from the problem of plenty - so many ideas, so little time. I wrote an article about how I deal with The Opposite of Writer's Block - https://bit.ly/3ARbnA0.

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Book Review – The Bookshop Woman

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The launch date is - 15 October 2021!!

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At twenty-two, Ranjani flies out of Mumbai as a starry-eyed bride anticipating an American-style Bollywood-version
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“Choosing freedom over toxic familiarity would always be the correct choice.”
Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Lighting the lamp is an art. A ritual. A discipline. Lighting the lamp became my anchor, and my focus, a deliberate act, and a resolution.”
Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“I decided to create a home from scratch, something that would reflect my tastes and preferences with a combination of objects and energy that would add up to a safe and inviting space for the people and experiences I wanted to welcome into my life.”
Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Every life is a journey, regardless of whether you stay in one place, live like a global nomad, or end up being something in between.”
Ranjani Rao, No Longer NRI: How I Left America for My Homeland

“What is harder to do is breaking the ties to the people, the places, and the version of me that will linger.”
Ranjani Rao, No Longer NRI: How I Left America for My Homeland

“In times of stress, it is the familiar that soothes and comforts. As we try to find our place in a landscape that is at once recognizable and unfamiliar, it is natural that we gravitate towards others undergoing the same transition.”
Ranjani Rao, No Longer NRI: How I Left America for My Homeland

“Negative Space – I am married. But I don’t have a child clinging to me. Does that make me childfree or childless?
The absence of something of such great significance can’t be described by a simple word like vacant. The absence is actually the removal of the object and something else, something intangible, from the observer himself.”
Ranjani Rao, Negative Space: Stories of Migration, Marriage, and Meaning

“Nature of clouds – Sister, Medha and Neeta, dreamer and pragmatist, whose divergent live and conflicting philosophies, were not destined to intersect.
Confessions and confidences would do nothing but dissolve her carefully constructed image of perfection.
Distance was the key, thought Medha, from a distance everything is still beautiful.”
Ranjani Rao, Negative Space: Stories of Migration, Marriage, and Meaning

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