RAJI WRITES

On May 25, 2020, a teenaged girl filmed a crime on her cellphone. The murder of George Floyd. The video recorded by 17-year-old Darnella...

The world as we know it has changed. We are suddenly in the midst of a pandemic. Covid-19. Four syllables that have thrown our world into...

I had been looking forward to a book event planned for March 31 at Kepler’s bookstore in Menlo Park. Author Alka Joshi was to speak about...

In this America, Miles Davis, Trumpeter, composer, jazz innovator, While standing outside a jazz club in New York where he was performing...

The world itself seems to have turned into a farce. When I fire up my computer and click on my web browser, the news blurbs seem more ins...

The Marcus Shelby Quartet performed a special concert called “Black History Life!” at the California Jazz Conservatory on Addison Street ...

Smart phones, video recordings and social media. With these, the daily injustices and mortal dangers faced by Black Americans have come m...

Towering saguaro cactii, the blush of a gorgeous sunset in the blue desert sky, and a crescent moon greeted us as we entered the Desert B...

What an amazing place! The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona has been touted by tripadvisor.com as "Phoenix's #1 attraction ...

Harry Potter is huge in this household. I mean, HUGE! Back in the day, when each book first came out, my friends and I would devour it in...

Dark Tales of Desire. This was the theme of Naatak Theatre Company's Mela ’19, four short plays at the Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto, w...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni named many modern themes: the MeToo movement, single motherhood, and victim shaming as she spoke about Sita, t...

The picturesque Villa Montalvo in Saratoga was the venue for the Bay Area’s first South Asian Literature and Art Festival (SALA 2019) whi...

Salman Rushdie describes the opioid crisis in his new book, "Quichotte." He had researched it for years following a family tragedy. His ...

“No man’s life can be encompassed in one telling. There is no way to give each year its allotted weight, to include each event, each per...

Grab your cup of tea, glass of wine, handkerchief, tissues if you are up for this sentimental post. All set? Here we go. One summer afte...

Plaid pale pants Puffy black jacket Short stylish black hair (Shorter than I remember) Those deepset black eyes as bright and piercing...

This review was published in India Currents on July 28, 2019, as "Watching Naatak’s “Marjorie Prime” With my Father" Futuristic plays pro...

A couple of months ago, Naatak UpClose presented “Proof”, David Auburn’s intense, Pulitzer Prize winning play, directed by Devika Ashok. ...

My first experience with Zoom video conferencing was in a Stanford Continuing Studies class. In the spring of 2016, I decided to take an...