RAJI WRITES

Geetha Reddy’s play about workplace discrimination was a favorite at the 2025 New Works Festival at TheatreWorks. This year, directed by Snehal Desai, it held its world premiere on June 9, 2026 at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. Playbill for The Employee Dharma Handbook Leela (Megan Suri), a brilliant Indian-American engineer who is Propulsion Systems Manager at an aerospace company, works on the manufacturing floor with 19 direct reports, preparing for an upcoming spac

The Lunchbox, the film It is a truth universally acknowledged that dabbas (lunchboxes) in the famed Mumbai dabbawalla system do not get mixed up. Over a hundred thousand dabbas are transferred every day using a manual transfer process, and always reach their intended recipient. The system is so efficient that even Harvard Business School did a case study on it. For his 2013 film The Lunchbox, Director Ritesh Batra imagined the unthinkable: a dabba mix-up. The film is a soulfu

Short Takes on a classical music house concert, two plays (Hamnet and Anthropology), and delicious Mexican food. Music Concert, classical Indian music by Madhuvanti Bhide My friend Lata Patil is a tireless champion of women's empowerment and leadership, and I met her years ago through the non-profit Indians for Collective Action when she served on their board. In honor of her late husband Hanumant Patil who was an Indian classical music aficionado, Lata hosted a house concert

Short Takes on a play, Bouquets to Art at the SF fine arts museums, the Kochi Biennale, food and drink, and Frankenstein the movie. Theater All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Berkeley Repertory Theatre Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is a play about ethics and moral responsibility in post-World War II America. Director David Medizabai reimagined this reckoning of the American Dream, from a lens of race, ethnicity and class, and Puerto Rican immigration to the United States. Jimmy Smit