RAJI WRITES

Short Takes on two plays, a few Oscar-nominated movies, and an irresistible cake! Theater A Streetcar Named Desire (by Tennessee Williams) I watched a bare bones production (by design) of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire at ACT-SF’s Toni Rembe theater. I had last watched Streetcar as an opera, commissioned by the San Francisco Opera. My friend Sunita, her mother Lulu and I managed to snag $10 tickets, standing room only at the

More Short Takes: on a literary journal, a film, a Berkeley Coffee Shop, and two novels translated from Malayalam. Weaver’s Literary Review (Volume 1, Number 2, 2025) Volume 1 Number 2 of Weaver’s Literary Review, “A Home for Writings by South Asian Americans and Others”, is beautiful and powerful, with poems, essays, translations, short stories and a review. I have read a few pieces so far, and am looking forward to reading the rest. I am honored to have in it my story Drea

What a fascinating city is New Orleans! The music, the food, the people, the history, the terrain, the trees, the bodies of water all around. While I’ve been to “The Big Easy” in the past for conferences, I never really had the opportunity to spend much time there. I was quite excited at the prospect of attending JazzFest for the first time in April/May of this year and spending 10 days in NOLA, my first longish stint in a southern city. And that too, the birthplace of its mo

Chef, writer and humanist extraordinaire Suvir Saran  came to his SALA 2024 “A Slice of Life” session with VR Ferose , looking absolutely...

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

First you look at all the lemons growing on the two lemon trees in your backyard. You ponder all the possible things you could do with...