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...

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

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

Radicalization of young men in a civil war How does a young man become “radicalized?” Subject him, his family, and his community to...

“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...

In the 2024 elections, California voters rejected a ballot measure which would have disallowed involuntary servitude in its prisons...

While you have read my book and theater reviews previously, Kite is my first published work of fiction. It appears in Issue 14 of Gold...

The Offspring, 19 and a voter, wrote a piece for Ethnic Media Services on how the official position on Gaza influences young voters...

Dr. Shashi Tharoor, author, intellectual, United Nations alumnus, and currently Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala,...

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

"Juneteenth" blends the words June 19th, which was the date in 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery after the end of...

"Seeing someone who looks like me–with my hair, skin tone, and culture–as a multi-dimensional, flawed, beautiful, badass character rather...

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

Live theater is one of my great pleasures, and it delights me to discover a new playhouse -- new, at least, to me. City Lights Theater...

In an impassioned introduction providing context for this greatest of stories with countless retellings, Amit Majmudar explains why he...

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...

The South Asian Literature and Arts Festival returns in 2023, this time at Menlo College in Atherton. It features over 60 Artists and...

I am in Kerala as I write this, having just returned to Kochi from visiting a beloved aunt in Palakkad District.  I never tire of...

About two-thirds of the way through The Covenant of Water , a birth is described. "Baby Ninan arrives in the year of our Lord 1946, like...