Raj is an accomplished Haiku poet and has been composing poems since his childhood. During his days at St. Stephen's College, he won the prestigious M.M. Bhalla Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in several editions of Newsweek (Japanese version), Mainichi Daily News, Asahi News and Ginyu in Japan, Bottlerockets, Frogpond, and A Hundred Gourds and NY Seikatsu magazines in the USA. He has also won prizes in the Ito-en International Haiku contest, the Polish International Haiku Competition, the Kusamakura Haiku Competition, the Immortal Beauty Haiku Contest and the Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest.