NLSIU’s Library Committee is organising a poetry reading with Dr. Mani Rao, author of the anthology So That You Know (Harper Collins 2025). The reading will take place at the NLS Library Basement on Monday, January 5, 2026, at 4 PM.

The event is open to the public. Registration is mandatory for the non-NLS community. RSVP here.

About the Poet

Dr. Mani Rao is the author of thirteen poetry books including So That You Know (Harper Collins 2025), and four books in translation including Bhagavad Gita and Saundarya Lahari. Researching mantra experience in tantric communities, she discovered continuing revelations and new mantras in circulation on-ground for Living Mantra: Mantra, Deities and Visionary Experience Today.

After studying literature in the early 80’s Madras, she worked as an advertising and television professional for two decades in Mumbai, New Zealand and Hong Kong. A resetting of life-goals led her back to the world of learning – she then did an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, and a PhD in Religious Studies from Duke University, USA. Returning to India by 2017, she began to live in Puttaparthi and Bangalore.