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

Introducing Short Takes   There are so many things I want to write to you all about, and I never seem to have time. So, I decided I would start “Short Takes” to tell you, in 500 words or less, about a book, a show, a movie, or something else that moves me.  So here we go! Film: One Hundred Years of Solitude.   A beloved book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez , made into an impressive Netflix series . I was transported into the world of Macondo and seven generations of the family of J