The Kakhovka Dam collapse is an ecological catastrophe for Ukraine’s wildlife

by Rashmee

Posted on August 5, 2023 / The New European


Floods, as they say, are acts of god, but flood losses are generally acts of …

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Crimes against nature

by Rashmee

Posted on August 3, 2023 / The New European


In light of #Ukraine’s #Kakhovka catastrophic dam collapse, can ecocide ever go from war casualty …

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The Kakhovka Dam collapse is an ecological catastrophe for Ukraine’s wildlife

by Rashmee

Posted on July 31, 2023 / The New European


Floods, as they say, are acts of god, but flood losses are generally acts of …

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Ecocide and Cormac McCarthy’s words

by Rashmee

Posted on June 21, 2023 / This Week, Those Books


Welcome to the second instalment of This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new …

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UN’s impotence on Ukraine underlines the need for real decolonisation – of the international architecture 

by Rashmee

Posted on November 23, 2022


The Pope’s description of Ukrainians as suffering from the “martyrdom of aggression” has come into …

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Why the United Nations has been reduced to a technical support role

by Rashmee

Posted on September 26, 2022


There’s lots to say about the excellent interview that Quartz did with former UN deputy …

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The G7 has returned to being a gentlemen’s club

by Rashmee

Posted on June 26, 2022


Today, leaders of some of the world’s biggest economies get together in the Bavarian Alps. …

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When it comes to hurling insults, Moscow is not a patch on Pyongyang

by Rashmee

Posted on June 18, 2022


When it comes to insults, the Russians could do worse than take classes  from the …

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Ukraine: Norman Foster, ‘colonisation’ and rebuilding Kharkiv

by Rashmee

Posted on June 8, 2022


In my recent openDemocracy piece on decolonising the bookshelf, I paraphrased Jane Austen’s famous …

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Countries, nations and states. Where does Palestine fit in?

by Rashmee

Posted on March 22, 2022


Going by American anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s definition, Ukraine is a nation, a state, a 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