Mind Your Language
by Rashmee
Posted on December 4, 2003 / The Times of India
By Rashmee Z Ahmed LONDON: Lord Melvyn Bragg , 64, is a man who has made his living — and his reputation — out of the English language. A BBC broadcaster, award-winning novelist, arts controller at London Weekend Television and one of British prime minister Tony Blair’s Labour Party-appointed life peers, his TV series, ‘The Adventure of English’, … Continue reading “Mind Your Language”
Read MoreSpry at 70
by Rashmee
Posted on December 2, 2002 / The Times of India
Mark Byford is head of the three BBC outlets that India gets to hear and see — World Service Radio, World Television and News Online. At 6’6, he is a giant of a man with big ideas about where he wants the BBC, arguably the world’s most respected international broadcaster, to be by 2006. That … Continue reading “Spry at 70”
Read MoreCNN as Theatre of War
by Rashmee
Posted on October 6, 2001 / The Times of India
London: Chris Cramer , president of cnn international networks, is the man who had the job of conveying to the world the united states’ sense of being invaded on september 11. an honorary american, the green-card holding englishman left the bbc in 1996 to join the network he describes as “putting its money where its mouth … Continue reading “CNN as Theatre of War”
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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