The Islamic States of America
by Rashmee
Posted on September 18, 2006 / The Times of India
This is the quintessential 9/11 book. Perfect to read—or review—in the week that America and much of the world marked the fifth anniversary of the Twin Towers attacks. But this futuristic view of a USA that becomes the ISA (Islamic States of America) before the half-way mark of this century is rather more than a … Continue reading “The Islamic States of America”
Read MoreWe have crossed our biggest hurdle: Lakshmi Mittal
by Rashmee
Posted on July 2, 2006 / The Economic Times
The morning-after feeling started late in the afternoon for steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and all his staff working out of two floors in the swish, if impersonal, rented offices of his company in Berkeley Square, Mayfair. At lunchtime on Friday, they received word from Luxembourg that European steel champion Arcelor’s shareholders had voted by an … Continue reading “We have crossed our biggest hurdle: Lakshmi Mittal”
Read MoreZidane, butt of European race debate
by Rashmee
Posted on June 11, 2006 / The Times of India
LONDON: Much of Europe has begun a controversial political debate about football, the sport that knits the continent but divides it from the coloured world, after Zinedine Zidane’s ignominious exit from the World Cup, professional football and the world stage because of a fierce exchange with Italian player Marco Materazzi in the 111th minute of … Continue reading “Zidane, butt of European race debate”
Read MoreAre we smarter? Or are they?
by Rashmee
Posted on February 5, 2006 / The Times of India
Nothing is as it appears in Kunal Basu’s third novel. The racists of the title are not today’s right-wing, anti-immigrant lunatic fringe. Though he is a Kolkata boy in an alien clime, he is not, he claims, “trying to comment on existing race relations” in Britain, where he has happily made his home for six … Continue reading “Are we smarter? Or are they?”
Read MoreWaiting for a sexual revolution
by Rashmee
Posted on January 30, 2006 / New Statesman
Towards the end of 2004, two Delhi teenagers made headline news in India for unusually risque reasons. A 17-year-old boy had secretly used his camera phone to film his 16-year-old girlfriend performing an act made famous by Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. Both were students at one of the capital’s leading secondary schools. The … Continue reading “Waiting for a sexual revolution”
Read MoreAfter Paris riots, Europe keeps vigil
by Rashmee
Posted on November 10, 2005 / The Times of India
PARIS: After a bleak fortnight of watching the fires consuming parts of suburban Paris and provincial France in the country’s worst wave of racial unrest ever, a bleary-eyed but transfixed Europe is reporting sleepless nights. Politicians fear a potential burning rage of millions of disaffected immigrant youths in major countries across the continent. Such fears … Continue reading “After Paris riots, Europe keeps vigil”
Read MoreMind 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