Yet another trigger warning…but just how troubling can Jane Austen be?
by Rashmee
Posted on February 6, 2023
News that the University of Greenwich is warning its undergrads about the potentially disturbing “gender …
Read MoreDecolonisation of the mind: Lessons from 21st century Britain
by Rashmee
Posted on December 7, 2022 / The Times of India
The need to de-colonise — and by implication, de-racialise — is increasing on Britain’s mind …
Read MoreTake Roald Dahl as a tonic rather than a terrible template
by Rashmee
Posted on August 14, 2022
I found ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine,’ a Roald Dahl book I hadn’t read, as a giveaway …
Read MoreNo, decolonising your bookshelf doesn’t mean getting rid of Jane Austen
by Rashmee
Posted on May 2, 2022 / openDemocracy
The headline in The Daily Telegraph was stark: “Jane Austen dropped from university’s English course …
Read MoreMarina Lewycka on the ambiguities of being Ukrainian
by Rashmee
Posted on March 19, 2022
On her website, British Ukrainian novelist Marina Lewycka offers some observations on eastern Ukraine, …
Read MoreA novel on tractors in Ukrainian is about anything but
by Rashmee
Posted on March 18, 2022
Marina Lewycka’s 2005 debut novel, ‘A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian’, was generally well-received …
Read MoreJavier Cercas on Spain’s battles with memory
by Rashmee
Posted on February 2, 2022
We started this examination of memory and forgetting with Pedro Almodovar’s film on the Spanish …
Read MoreMemory and forgetting: Coming to terms with a country’s past
by Rashmee
Posted on February 1, 2022
Any discussion about coming to terms with a country’s past must contend with several things: …
Read MoreAlmodovar’s new film and the burdens of remembering the Spanish civil war
by Rashmee
Posted on January 31, 2022
This is not the year of a big birthday in case of the Spanish civil …
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 …
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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