Abdulrazak Gurnah: the truth-teller’s tale
by Rashmee
Posted on October 31, 2021 / open Democracy
Winning the Nobel Prize in literature means his work could add essential nuance to the …
Read MoreHalloween has become spookily big in Britain
by Rashmee
Posted on October 30, 2021
In 2019, UK spending around Halloween was around £ 500 million, with retailers selling decorations, …
Read MoreMeta problems: Beyond Facebook
by Rashmee
Posted on October 29, 2021
Facebook has problems. Meta ones, which is to say, problems beyond problems. In Greek, “meta” …
Read MoreThe ‘next climate summit’ (after COP26, that is)
by Rashmee
Posted on October 28, 2021
COP26 hasn’t even begun and some media organisations are on to the “next climate summit”.…
Read MoreMon dieu. The French have given up on the skinny jean
by Rashmee
Posted on October 27, 2021
The French have given up on the skinny jean? Apparently. So says Ellie Pithers of …
Read MoreA baby is sold in Herat. A man sold his family in Thomas Hardy’s fictional Wessex
by Rashmee
Posted on October 26, 2021
Listening to the BBC’s Yogita Limaye report from Herat in western Afghanistan on the harrowing …
Read MoreThe French Trump?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 25, 2021
Journalists know that artful comparisons are excellent shorthand to convey nuance. So Bassem Youssef is …
Read MoreVirtue, as the Taliban see it
by Rashmee
Posted on October 24, 2021
The Taliban, by some accounts, are not a particularly virtuous sort. They’ve allegedly been forcing …
Read MoreAsma Khan epitomises the rise and rise of Britain’s public chef
by Rashmee
Posted on October 23, 2021
Never underestimate the selling power of a good story. Having read Bobby Ghosh’s piece on …
Read More‘The world’s most effective democratically elected leader today’?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 22, 2021
“Bad news travels. Good news doesn’t”. Thus begins veteran Singapore diplomat Kishore Mahbubani’s piece …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK