RAJI WRITES

One of the great joys of living near Stanford University is access to many outstanding events that are open to the community. One such...

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,...

Filoli is a historic house and garden in Woodside, California, and is one of the 28 sites owned by the National Trust for Historic...

Silicon Valley Reads “is an annual community program that selects books focused on a contemporary theme and offers free events throughout...

“The Power of Us” was this year’s theme for the fifth annual Watermark Conference for Women Silicon Valley, attended by over 7000 women,...

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

We look at a child’s smile and match that smile to her mother or father. Resemblances, in appearance, in a laugh, in a gesture, in...

Indians for Collective Action (ICA) is a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit group whose mission is to support sustainable development in...

This review was published in Indica News on Sept 27, 2018. Enacte Arts , whose tagline is "South Asian Stories with Universal Appeal",...

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

A shorter version of this review was published in Indica News on Sept 11, 2018. A couple of months ago, I mentioned to Sunaina, my...

There are few places on earth where, the second your feet touch the ground, the stress drains away. Hawaii is my #1 place in that...

At the botanical gardens in Princeville, the tour guide pointed out some deep blue spheres on the ground, which she said were fruit of...

A shorter version of this review was published in India West newspaper on Aug 1, 2018. In eager anticipation of Naatak’s adaptation of...

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

Eating rose petals? That concept is not as strange to me as it might be to some others. When I was a child, I remember wandering in the...

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"Welcome to your intellectual home!" These were the warm words of President Kathleen McCartney as she welcomed an auditorium filled with...

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

Yosemite National Park, the nation's first national park. A place of breathtaking beauty, where one is humbled by the majesty of nature....