RAJI WRITES

A few weeks ago I was shocked to learn that a lovely person I first met decades ago in San Francisco, and again more recently at the...

On September 17, 2021, one of the sweetest people I have ever known went into cardiac arrest in the ICU at Thangam hospital in Palakkad,...

Once upon a time, I had a dear friend named Maggie. She taught herself calligraphy, sitting at a drafting table and painstakingly writing...

The past few weeks have brought jolting news of deaths by suicide, of fashion designer Kate Spade, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, and...

Sheryl Sandberg’s and Adam Grant's recent book, "Option B, Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy" is a moving account of...

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...

It happens every time I see A woman with wavy blond Hair to her shoulders, her stride Confident, brisk. I think, Helen, of you. I...

I am capable of instantaneous travel, of transporting myself anywhere in seconds. Thursday May 7, 2009. I travel from Sunnyvale,...