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Covers:  international affairs, development aid
Journalist by trade & inclination. PhD. Lecturer @ Goldsmiths thisweekthosebooks.substack.com medium.com/this-week-those-books

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Rashmee Roshan Lall’s Biography

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Rashmee Roshan Lall started with The Times of India newspaper in Delhi, made a brief foray into publishing as editor of Rupa and HarperCollins India and then took up broadcasting with the BBC World Service in London. She presented the BBC World Service’s flagship news and current affairs programme, ‘The World Today’. She was subsequently The Times of India’s Foreign Editor based in London, reporting on all of Europe. Till June 2011, she was editor of The Sunday Times of India and has spent the …

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The Rise of Delicious Haitian Chocolate

The Rise of Delicious Haitian Chocolate

Haitian Super Trees In Robillard, a tiny hamlet deep in the Haitian hinterland, Valmir Mamonvil is standing n…

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Voodoo is a big problem for Haiti, says new cardinal

Voodoo is a big problem for Haiti, says new cardinal

Haiti's first Roman Catholic cardinal has described voodoo as a "big social problem" for his desperately poor…

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The west's peanut butter bias chokes Haiti's attempts to feed itself

The west's peanut butter bias chokes Haiti's attempts to feed itself

Bedline is 17 months and weighs just 5.3kg. She lies feverish and quiet in her grandmother's arms, eyes glaze…

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India's future does not lie in a highly mythologised past | The National

India's future does not lie in a highly mythologised past | The National

India's secular old order has never seemed so fragile as in the month since Narendra Modi was sworn in as pri…

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Haiti slum blooms into urban oasis

Haiti slum blooms into urban oasis

"Plant moringa; harvest community harmony" could be a good motto for Jaden Tap Tap, a green oasis in the toug…

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The pros and cons: a gathering debate | openDemocracy

The pros and cons: a gathering debate | openDemocracy

In Newark, New Jersey, inquiries into an applicant's criminal history are delayed until a conditional offer o…

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Mayors are in fashion. What if they led the world?

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By Those Books, Rashmee Roshan Lall
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This Week’s Books: A plea for mayors to be allowed to lead. The last mayor of a major city on how it went…until it didn’t. Press enter or click to view image in full size Here’s another relevant free-to-read post from the archives : If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities By: Benjamin R Barber Publisher: Yale University Press Year: 2013 The late Benjamin Barber was the founding figure in the Global Parliament of Mayors, which launched in The Hague in 2016.
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Rewiring Britain

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By Rashmee Roshan Lall
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The Big Story: Britain’s new prime minister, its seventh in 10 years, has taken charge after a forceful repudiation of “40 years of neoliberalism” and with the promise of a new economic and political model for the country. Prime Minister Andy Burnham wants to steer the British ship of state in a new direction, turning away from 1980s policies that resulted in the wholesale privatisation of public services and de-industrialisation. What chance of rewiring Britain, the world’s fifth largest economy?
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Rewiring Britain

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A Brief History of Neoliberalism By: David Harvey Publisher: OUP Year: 2005 — Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right By: Quinn Slobodian Publisher: Zone books Year: 2025 I’m placing these two books side by side for a reason. The second begins at the point the first concludes. Together, the two build a clear picture of neoliberalism and what it entails. A Brief History of Neoliberalism is by City University of New York Professor David Harvey.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Sub-editor/Reporter

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, as a child

How is social media changing news?

Right after the Sandy Hook school shooting, journalists were tweeting facts without checking them; always unacceptable, Twitter or no Twitter