How I was drawn into the strangest debate of them all. That #India-is-not-a-sub-continent

by Rashmee

Posted on August 26, 2017


“Dear Rashmee Lall,” the email began, omitting part of my surname. “I admire your work …

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Everyone’s talking about George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’. Read his essay ‘Marrakech’ instead

by Rashmee

Posted on February 10, 2017


Everyone is going on about George Orwell and 1984 these days but I would venture …

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In the republic of poetry, there will be no one dislocated from history

by Rashmee

Posted on March 14, 2016


Can poetry ease an immigrant’s sense of dislocation? Only to the extent that it might …

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Should Rhodes fall? Oxford VC says think critically rather than as censors

by Rashmee

Posted on January 23, 2016


The controversy over Rhodes Must Fall – the campaign to tear down Cecil Rhodes’s statue …

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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