RAJI WRITES

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

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

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 days. Days of disc...

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

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

One of the great joys of living near Stanford University is access to many outstanding events that are open to the community. One such event was “The Living...

Silicon Valley Reads “is an annual community program that selects books focused on a contemporary theme and offers free events throughout Santa Clara County ...

A shorter version of this review was published in Indica News on Sept 11, 2018. A couple of months ago, I mentioned to Sunaina, my 12-year-old, that I was ab...

A shorter version of this review was published in India West newspaper on Aug 1, 2018. In eager anticipation of Naatak’s adaptation of the classic 1950 film ...

This piece was published in India West newspaper on May 16, 2018 Much has been written about the mind. It is mysterious. Sigmund Freud famously said “The min...

Naatak has picked for its Mela '17 production, six humorous, ironic and engaging plays, presented in 6 Indian languages. It opened on Labor Day after days o...

The Urdu scholar and short story writer Naiyer Masud, passed away today. I found in my archives this piece that I had written in 1998. I remain as moved by ...

I watched a terrific play on Sunday, July 16th . The bay area theater company, Naatak performed "Toba Tek Singh", a well-known short story by one of the most...

I finished reading Arundhati Roy's “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” a few days ago, and found myself feeling oddly bereaved. Then, as one does when one is ...

A gift card to Kepler's! I was delighted and overwhelmed at this farewell gift from my colleagues. It was 1999. I had completed my fellowship and was moving...