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...

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

“Dictators are pretty good for landscaping and gardens,” quipped Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel  The...

The South Asian Art and Literature Festival (SALA 2024) hosted three award-winning writers of Sri Lankan descent on September 28th at...

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

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, and even participated in a Readathon! The recordings are...

The COVID-19 pandemic took its place in our lives at the beginning of 2020, and changed life as we know it. Silicon Valley Reads picks a...

“Women – Making It Happen. Celebrating 100 years of women’s achievements.” This was the 2020 theme for Silicon Valley Reads, in honor of...

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

This piece was published in India Currents ("Nandita Das Delights at Stanford") on March 12, 2019. Actor and film director Nandita Das...

Indian Business and Professional Women (IBPW), a non-profit support network that promotes education, leadership and self-development...

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

The energy from 6500 women was palpable as they came together at a critical juncture in the national discussion about the treatment of...