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Mani Rao is the author of eleven poetry books including Sing to Me (Recent Work Press Australia), New & Selected Poems (Poetrywala India) and Echolocation (Math Paper Press Singapore). She has two books in translation from Sanskrit — Bhagavad Gita, and Kalidasa for the 21st Century (Aleph Books India), and a book of non-fiction based on fieldwork in tantric communities: Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity and Visionary Experience today (Palgrave Macmillan). See www.manirao.com for updates.
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