Obituaries are a serious business…that doesn’t mean they’re sad. Or formulaic

by Rashmee

Posted on February 9, 2022


Everyone knows that ‘The New York Times’ has a stock of nearly 2,000 obituaries and …

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Obituaries have a life of their own

by Rashmee

Posted on February 8, 2022


The whole business of obituaries is interesting. Those who write them are generally deeply in …

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The pandemic has made life harder for obituary writers

by Rashmee

Posted on February 7, 2022


The toll taken by the pandemic has made life rather difficult for obituary writers. Their …

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Living with – or without – Covid

by Rashmee

Posted on January 24, 2022


On Saturday, it was two years exactly since China put Wuhan in quarantine. On January …

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Vaccine apartheid is the wrong term

by Rashmee

Posted on January 12, 2022


Vaccine sceptics sometimes label government policies that bar the unvaccinated from restaurants and public buildings …

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Pandemic to endemic?

by Rashmee

Posted on January 10, 2022


Will Britain become “one of the first major economies to demonstrate to the world how …

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Turning the unvaccinated into modern-day lepers?

by Rashmee

Posted on January 7, 2022


On January 6, Italy made a coronavirus vaccination mandatory for everybody over the age of …

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What chance that cigarettes go up in smoke?

by Rashmee

Posted on December 14, 2021


New Zealand…The Netherlands…Australia… Just days ago, New Zealand announced plans to become the world’s first …

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Counting down on exactly two years of Covid 19

by Rashmee

Posted on December 8, 2021


Two years ago today (December 8), the disease we now know as Covid-19 manifested itself …

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Biden should have called Trump out as Covid’s Typhoid Mary

by Rashmee

Posted on December 7, 2021


I have to say I agree with Jamelle Bouie (paywall): Joe Biden was wrong not …

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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