Raju Tai

Raju Tai is a writer, writing facilitator, curriculum designer, and creativity coach. She is passionate about creating and facilitating workshop experiences in which women and teens tap into the transformative power of their creativity. Her poems have appeared in Muse India, Hakara, The Alipore Post, and Gulmohur Quarterly. Her essays are published in collections like Yaari: A South Asian Anthology on Friendship, Age of Anxiety, and websites like Scroll, Firstpost, and Buzzfeed. In writing, she finds healing, courage, and playfulness. (forthcoming), and Age of Anxiety.

Loving Minu Tai

…and learning from her. A meditation on love, loss and healing Minu Tai and I were given two vastly different lives to live. I’m not adding a photograph of Minu Tai to this essay — so here’s a description — an agile

Ego Work

When I say a big ego I mean a male ego I mean my ego is a male and a big one at that He knocks us down with doubt and sarcasm pros and cons and taunts an image to maintain

Gulmohur

On the way back from the hospital I ask in the rickshaw — Why this life-long marination in nature and language? Why go desperately Sensing the too-named Naming the too-sensed? Where do I go gutfully as seasons blaze through me?