COVID victims: In death as in life, the poor remain unseen
by Rashmee
Posted on March 27, 2022 / open Democracy
After two years of COVID and a global death toll of more than six million, …
Read MoreObituaries 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 …
Read MoreObituaries 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 …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreLiving 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 …
Read MoreAre the unvaccinated becoming modern-day lepers?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 23, 2022 / open Democracy
Will ‘health taxes’, fines, bans on foreign travel and a French strategy of ‘pissing them …
Read MoreVaccine 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 …
Read MorePandemic to endemic?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 10, 2022
Will Britain become “one of the first major economies to demonstrate to the world how …
Read MoreTurning 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 …
Read MoreCounting 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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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK