Gaelige and Brussels’ Tower of Babel

by Rashmee

Posted on January 22, 2022


The year opened with good news for speakers of Irish or Gaelige. On January 1, …

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Chilmark, the English village that created an American commercial legend

by Rashmee

Posted on September 10, 2018


We’ve just been visiting Chilmark, the English village from which Thomas Macy left to become …

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Is the Japanese concept of Komorebi (see pic) really culturally untranslatable?

by Rashmee

Posted on February 24, 2018


Someone posted a blog that listed “11 beautiful Japanese words that don’t exist in English’, …

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Is the Japanese concept of Komorebi (see pic) really culturally untranslatable?

by Rashmee

Posted on May 18, 2016


Someone posted a blog that listed “11 beautiful Japanese words that don’t exist in English’, …

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Let me put it to you straight and on the nose: does subtlety in art suck?

by Rashmee

Posted on November 9, 2015


I remembered Aleksander Hemon’s plea for unsubtle adjectives while reading Forrest Wickman’s swipe at subtlety …

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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