RAJI WRITES

Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, and winner of two Booker Prizes among other honors, graced Stanford’s Memorial...

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...

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

This piece was published in India Currents ("Nandita Das Delights at Stanford") on March 12, 2019. Actor and film director Nandita Das spoke at Stanford University on March 4, 2019 on “The Making of Manto” about her 2018 biographical film on the writer Saadat Hasan Manto. Born in British India, Manto migrated from his beloved Bombay to Lahore, Pakistan after Partition. Many of his stories reflect his heartbreak and disaffection at the violence and inhumanity that ensued

On April 13, I went to Hana Haus on University Ave., Palo Alto to hear a talk in their speaker series. First, a few words on Hana Haus,...