Ukraine
by Rashmee
Posted on April 2, 2022
Three days after Britain launched its Home for Ukraine website on March 14, more than …
Read MoreWhat is a country if it’s not a nation?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 21, 2022
Novelist Marina Lewycka’s musings about the ancient nature or not of Ukraine made me think …
Read MoreIs Ukraine really an ancient state and what is a country if it’s not a nation?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 20, 2022
Vladimir Putin has somewhat contemptuously said that Ukraine is not an ancient state; it’s not …
Read MoreMarina Lewycka on the ambiguities of being Ukrainian
by Rashmee
Posted on March 19, 2022
On her website, British Ukrainian novelist Marina Lewycka offers some observations on eastern Ukraine, …
Read MoreA novel on tractors in Ukrainian is about anything but
by Rashmee
Posted on March 18, 2022
Marina Lewycka’s 2005 debut novel, ‘A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian’, was generally well-received …
Read MoreWhat links the UK’s DIY-asylum system and that novel about ‘tractors in Ukrainian’?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 17, 2022
More than 100,000 potential refugee sponsors have signed up for the voluntary job since Britain …
Read MoreRashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK