A Clinical Psychologist by profession, Baiju Laila Raaj is also an author. He has received international acclaim for his english poetry anthology for Portrait of a Hypocrite, national award for the English play, Cypher – last of the working class. His cartoons have appeared in New Yorker, Counter Punch and Kirkus Review
He has conducted 21 art exhibitions all over india and the first ever computer graphics exhibition in Kerala.