Eat, Pray, Cancel: Was it ok for Elizabeth Gilbert to pull novel set in Russia?
by Rashmee
Posted on June 30, 2023
As a writer and a journalist I have to say that Elizabeth Gilbert’s decisive pulling …
Read MoreEcocide and Cormac McCarthy’s words
by Rashmee
Posted on June 29, 2023
Welcome to the second instalment of This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new …
Read MoreWhat to know about Russia, revolts and 1917
by Rashmee
Posted on June 28, 2023 / This Week, Those Books
Welcome to the third instalment of This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new …
Read MoreWhat to know about ‘dictator chic’
by Rashmee
Posted on June 27, 2023
On June 14, 2023, Joining the Dots began a new offering: This Week Reminds Me …
Read MorePutin: He who must not be named
by Rashmee
Posted on June 26, 2023
Everyone’s probably heard by now about the way the Chinese behaved in the aftermath of …
Read MoreYevgeny Prigozhin: The man who fell to earth
by Rashmee
Posted on June 25, 2023
In the film The Man Who Fell to Earth, which is based on the eponymous …
Read More‘Russian army goes from 2nd most powerful in the world to 2nd in Russia’
by Rashmee
Posted on June 24, 2023
One of the pithiest summaries of the confused situation in Russia as the Wagner group …
Read MoreRepost: The car has had a good run from the first ‘horseless carriage’ to the Automobile Age
by Rashmee
Posted on June 23, 2023
In his 2013 novel The Automobile Club of Egypt, Alaa Al Aswany portrays a famous …
Read MoreManufacturing ‘supercycle’ cuts at rumours of American declinism
by Rashmee
Posted on June 22, 2023
Rumours of American declinism are greatly overstated at least on one count – the massive …
Read MoreEcocide and Cormac McCarthy’s words
by Rashmee
Posted on June 21, 2023 / This Week, Those Books
Welcome to the second instalment of This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new …
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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