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2 weeks ago | 
rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
By chance, we arrived in Bristol on the fifth anniversary of the toppling of Edward Colston’s statue into the harbour. Colston, a prominent Bristol merchant who played a plied the slave trade in the 17th century, became the focus of pent-up community fury about racial inequity during the trans-Atlantic blowback from the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
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3 weeks ago | 
rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
In the toadying way we think might come straight from Pyongyang, several of Donald Trump’s cabinet members have praised his ability to negotiate, calling him the best dealmaker ever and justly renowned for the art of the deal. But in actual fact, let’s look at Mr Trump’s ‘deals’ in the 20 or so weeks he’s been US president for a second time.
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3 weeks ago | 
rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
Reimagine it, says a new book. And a signature novel from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, giant of African literature, who recently…
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3 weeks ago | 
rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
For every George Simion, it turns out, there is a Karol Nawrocki. Mr Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s June 1 presidential election, delivering a substantive and symbolic victory to Mr Trump and his MAGA movement’s efforts to export the ideology overseas. Mr Simion was, to use a familiar Trumpian insult, the “loser” who let his self-described “MAGA ticket” down in last month’s presidential election in Romania.
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3 weeks ago | 
rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
For every George Simion, it turns out, there is a Karol Nawrocki. Mr Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s June 1 presidential election, delivering a substantive and symbolic victory to Mr Trump and his MAGA movement’s efforts to export the ideology overseas. Mr Simion was, to use a familiar Trumpian insult, the “loser” who let his self-described “MAGA ticket” down in last month’s presidential election in Romania.
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3 weeks ago | 
rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
PhD. Journalism by trade & inclination. Writer. My novel 'Pomegranate Peace' is about my year in Afghanistan. I teach journalism at university in London
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3 weeks ago | 
rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
Travelling in a bus across London, I looked at all the people enjoying the Saturday afternoon sun and thought of Gaza. The people of Gaza couldn’t sit at tables with a cold drink in front of them, I thought. Funny that. How it is the sight of people doing ordinary things that brings home how extraordinary it is. How peace is really about the ability to do ordinary things, in comfort and safety. The ordinary is extraordinary.
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3 weeks ago | 
rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
Travelling in a bus across London, I looked at all the people enjoying the Saturday afternoon sun and thought of Gaza. The people of Gaza couldn’t sit at tables with a cold drink in front of them, I thought. Funny that. How it is the sight of people doing ordinary things that brings home how extraordinary it is. How peace is really about the ability to do ordinary things, in comfort and safety. The ordinary is extraordinary.
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4 weeks ago | 
rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
The other day I chanced upon a world map drawn by The Continent newspaper, a digital outlet that is produced by African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors. It was fascinating because, in the words of The Continent’s publisher, it was “based on the Equal Earth projection, which tries to solve that problem where Africa always ends up looking smaller than it is”. True. Not just Africa, of course.
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4 weeks ago | 
rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall
The other day I chanced upon a world map drawn by The Continent newspaper, a digital outlet that is produced by African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors. It was fascinating because, in the words of The Continent’s publisher, it was “based on the Equal Earth projection, which tries to solve that problem where Africa always ends up looking smaller than it is”. True. Not just Africa, of course.
