An AI breakthrough that may mean curtains for poets, journalists…and me
by Rashmee
Posted on July 23, 2020 / The Focus
I was very taken by economics professor Tyler Cowen’s recent rundown on an Artificial Intelligence …
Read MoreEver tried Ramadan in a poem?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 6, 2019
I was very taken by Libyan-American Khaled Mattawa’s poem, which bears the simple title ‘Ramadan’.…
Read MoreA Chinese poet in the US faces his shadows
by Rashmee
Posted on September 1, 2018
I wonder what Ha Jin, a Chinese poet who stayed back in the US after …
Read MoreCan a poem be as deadly as a tank?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 5, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
A poem has certainly never stopped a tank, Nobel literature laureate Seamus Heaney once wrote, …
Read MoreA Midwestern grin and a poem about the TSA. Amit Majmudar is clearly no ABCD
by Rashmee
Posted on December 12, 2016
Reading Amit Majmudar’s poem ‘T.S.A.’, named after that unwieldy monster post-9/11 organisation, America’s Transportation Security …
Read MoreA poem a day. Or how the oneness of the world – and self – can be poetically brought about
by Rashmee
Posted on October 24, 2016
Hannah Arendt, the theorist who looked deep into the heart of political darkness, once said …
Read MoreIn 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 …
Read MoreWhat does a poet do with history? They parse it so it’s no longer a souvenir
by Rashmee
Posted on August 18, 2015
Last week, it was that time of year again – when Indians and Pakistanis recall …
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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