Ramesh Nagaraj Rao

Ramesh Nagaraj Rao is a professor of Communication at Columbus State University.
Education
Ramesh Nagaraj Rao received his Bachelor of Arts degree from in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology in 1977 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore. He had worked as a bank officer and school teacher, before migrating to United States in 1985.
Career
He used to be an Associate Professor at Truman State University and an Assistant Professor at Northwest Missouri State University and worked on theories of conflict and hostage negotiations.
Works
Discussing his forthcoming book Secular Gods'Blame Hindu Demonsin 2000, Ramesh Rao said of his aim to counter the plethora of criticism of the Sangh Parivar and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), that had been published after the destruction of the Babri Mosque in 1992 through a "programmatic and sustained campaign of vilification and demonization".
Ramesh Rao co-edited Gujarat after Godhra - Real Violence, Selective Outrage (2003) with Koenraad Elst; it includes a critique of a Human Rights Watch report that claimed complicity of the state in the 2002 Gujarat communal violence.
Reception
Martha Nussbaum has found it strange that Rao and his co-authors spent a lot of space in defending the history and politics of the RSS, which was supposedly unconnected to the IDRF. Much of the book is also devoted to personal attacks on the authors of the Sabrang report, with labels such as "Lies, More Lies and Noting But Lies," as well as their caricature as leftist intellectuals with Pakistani connections. Much of Rao's writings are found by Nussbaum to contain digressions and tirades that have little to do with the subject instead of calmly presenting information that allow the readers to judge for themselves.
He also has sympathetic connections to the politicians of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India.

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