Romola Butalia is an Indian writer, a journalist and a website editor. She was born in Kolkata. Her many passions in life have included travel, people, writing, communication and the Himalayas. She teaches Yoga and Vedic Sciences and is a practitioner in the tradition of the Himalyan yogis

Education

She completed school at Loreto House,

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

, graduated with honours in economics from

Miranda House Miranda House is a constituent college for women at the University of Delhi in India. Established in 1948, it is one of the top ranked colleges of the country and ranked as number 1 for consecutively six years (as of 2022). History Miranda ...

and did a Masters degree at Delhi School of Economics,

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.Publisher's monograph
at MLBD.com

Career

As a freelance journalist, she has written for major Indian newspapers and magazines including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. With the advent of satellite TV in India, she has produced an arts-based serial, directed a serial on women's issues, and has conducted interviews for Star Movies. She has edited India Travelogue, one of IndiaWorld's 13 websites which were bought by Satyam Infoway. She was later Editor of Myindia.com. She has served as portals head for 123India.com. She is the editor of India Travelogue. She currently stays in central rural Uttarakhand.

Bibliography

*Butalia R ''In the Presence of the Masters'' MLBD, Delhi 2003 , *Butalia R ''Sri Babaji: Immortal Yogi of the Himalayas'' MLBD, Delhi 2007.

References

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