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...

Yes, it has been several months since the South Asian Literature and Art Festival (SALA 2023) at Menlo College in Menlo Park, California....

On April 4, 1979, I was getting ready for school when I learned that the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had been...

During the pandemic shut down, I had watched a few of Naatak's zoom plays. Ramayan was my first live Naatak play in a theater since the...

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

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

Grab your cup of tea, glass of wine, handkerchief, tissues if you are up for this sentimental post. All set? Here we go. One summer...

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

There are places that calm one's spirits, still one's restless mind and offer comfort, solace. These are the places where I love to walk,...

She picks words as she picks popcorn from a bowl, without looking, without effort. She threads them together as she threads beads into...

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

There is a man named Khosla A Silicon Valley type With SUN he made his billions And then he found a gripe He bought a beachfront mansion...

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...

Here you are again My sometimes friend You came in the middle of the night I lay awake with you wrapped around my heart And there...