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 …
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 MoreAlong with other things, America has a Santa crisis
by Rashmee
Posted on December 24, 2021
It’s not easy being a worthy Santa – portliness, for instance, might be a desirable …
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 …
Read MoreBiden 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 …
Read MoreJournalists are comically attached to linear narratives even when trying to wake up in 2041
by Rashmee
Posted on November 29, 2021
Journalism is a very different profession from writing fiction (as I have learnt, slowly, painfully, …
Read MoreGovernments should mark World Food Day every day
by Rashmee
Posted on October 18, 2021
The second World Food Day under a deadly pandemic has come and gone (on Saturday, …
Read MoreHaiti earns yet another grim distinction: not a single person vaccinated
by Rashmee
Posted on June 20, 2021
/ TRAVELS IN MY MIND I only recently learned that Haiti is the only country …
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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