RAJI WRITES

Update: This event took place on February 22, 2026, and a recording is available here: Author Conversation on Color & Belonging - YouTube Event details are below: It isn’t often that the stars align to find three books that are beautifully written, fit the theme of a panel discussion I am planning, and whose authors are available on the date I am planning the event! Before I introduce the event, here is the context. Silicon Valley Reads chose as its 2026 theme Bridges to Belo

The Book I was excited to receive in the mail Salman Rushdie’s latest book, The Eleventh Hour , a quintet of stories (Random House, 2025). In Late, my favorite story in the collection, a retired Cambridge academic of South Asian descent wakes up one day and discovers he is dead. I loved the novel and immensely creative plot, and was moved by the compassionate portrayal of the Cambridge don as he recalls his life and interacts with a young student who alone can see him. The Mu

Silicon Valley Reads chose as its 2025 theme “Empowering Humanity: Technology for a Better World.” I moderated a session presented by...

The South Asian Literature and Arts Festival returns in 2023, this time at Menlo College in Atherton. It features over 60 Artists and...

I have moderated book discussions and author interviews in the past few years, participated in a Readathon, and even narrated an audiobook! The recordings are scattered all over the world wide web. I thought I’d assemble various links and share them. Read on, and check out the audio/video links! Here's what follows: Audiobook Silicon Valley Reads author / book events in 2026, 2025, 2023, 2021, 2020 and 2019 One Story One Nation initiative in 2020: a reading of Tagore's Kabul

Silicon Valley Reads had chosen “Journey to New Beginnings” as its 2023 theme. One of the books selected to showcase this theme is The...