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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall

Position

Lecturer in Journalism

Department

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Email

rashmee.roshanlall (@gold.ac.uk)

Rashmee is an experienced journalist who has worked on four continents, interpreting political news across cultures

Rashmee Roshan Lall was editor of The Sunday Times of India, deputy global news editor
Quartz, presenter of the BBC World Service’s flagship current affairs programme and
features editor of openDemocracy. She reported for The Economist and The Guardian from Haiti, for India Today from the US and analysed developments in Tunisia and elsewhere for The National, Abu Dhabi. She is a columnist for The Times of India and continues to contribute to Persuasion and other outlets. Passionate about news literacy, she created a Substack, This Week, Those Books, which links the week’s big story to the world of books. The newsletter has grown in 16 months to more than 10,000 subscribers in 117 countries. She is a daily blogger, rarely missing a day in 12 years, and a published novelist.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD 2020

Teaching and supervision

Journalism
Media and Communications
History and Journalism

Featured publications

2022: The Pomegranate Peace
A novel about life on the American compound in Kabul in 2011, just weeks after the most audacious attack on the US embassy in 10 years of war.

2018: Tunisia on my Mind
Tunisia seemed to be defined by three ‘T’s – tiles, topiary and tuna. And then there was the A to Z of this ancient land

2011: The Dharma of Disenchantment (chapter) Making Sense of Modi’s India
A cross-section of leading voices from academia, media and politics to examine the factors behind the dramatic resurgence of Hindu nationalism

Rashmee has taught critical thinking in cultural studies, as well as experimentation, adaptation and collaboration to creative writing undergratuates at the University of East Anglia. She designed and taught a multimedia storytelling postgraduate module at the University of East London.