Tariq Ali’s views on ‘racism’ in English cricket are worth reading
by Rashmee
Posted on November 20, 2021
Tariq Ali, british novelist and activist, writes about racism in Yorkshire county cricket as follows …
Read MoreBritain is not a captured state…yet
by Rashmee
Posted on November 8, 2021
Britain’s working week has begun on a dismal note. Or a grandly hopeful note on …
Read MoreHalloween has become spookily big in Britain
by Rashmee
Posted on October 30, 2021
In 2019, UK spending around Halloween was around £ 500 million, with retailers selling decorations, …
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 …
Read MoreAbdulrazak Gurnah makes little concession to literary fads
by Rashmee
Posted on October 16, 2021
When Abdulrazak Gurnah was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, …
Read MoreCSA for Brexit Britain?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 9, 2021
In Wisconsin, we heard about the thriving tradition of CSA or Community Supported Agriculture…
Read MoreShakespeare in the Woolwich Barracks: As you like it
by Rashmee
Posted on September 19, 2021
The other night we saw ‘As You Like It’ — for the second time this …
Read MoreThe Nicki Minaj balls-up and her ‘schooldays with Maggie Thatcher’
by Rashmee
Posted on September 18, 2021
Politico’s ‘Declassified’ weekly column, advertises itself as looking at the lighter side of politics. They …
Read MoreWhat’s with the Gallic ire?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 17, 2021
France is hopping mad that the US, UK and Australia have announced a new three-way …
Read MoreHad it been Brexit in 2005, there would have been no ‘British’ success at the US Open
by Rashmee
Posted on September 12, 2021
Britain is celebrating Emma Raducanu’s stunning success as “the first British woman to win a …
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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