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    How amnesia made Neighbours forget itself
    • Feb 12, 2020

    How amnesia made Neighbours forget itself

    The year is 1988: Margaret Thatcher has become the UK’s longest-serving 20th-century prime minister; Prince Charles has narrowly avoided...
    Umrao Jaan Ada's tale of courtesans and toxic men makes an unempowering musical
    • Jan 31, 2020

    Umrao Jaan Ada's tale of courtesans and toxic men makes an unempowering musical

    Even by the standards of Bollywood sagas, Umrao Jaan is complex and melodramatic. It is based on what is considered the first Urdu novel,...
    My mother was dying – but my best friend brought happiness to a brutally sad day
    • Dec 24, 2019

    My mother was dying – but my best friend brought happiness to a brutally sad day

    The year 2012 had been a long and difficult one. One of three, in fact. It had been three years since my mum was diagnosed with terminal...
    Treating mental health with an app: Chips with Everything podcast
    • Nov 18, 2019

    Treating mental health with an app: Chips with Everything podcast

    I spoke on the Guardian's flagship technology podcast, Chips with Everything, about the growing market in digital therapy apps. You can...
    'So flawed and problematic': why the term 'world music' is dead
    • Jul 28, 2019

    'So flawed and problematic': why the term 'world music' is dead

    Ask most musicians what genre they play and you’ll likely get a prickly response. As one well-known, and slightly tipsy, jazz musician...
    I’ll never see Mum again. But I’ve learned to live with Mother’s Day
    • Apr 13, 2019

    I’ll never see Mum again. But I’ve learned to live with Mother’s Day

    I can’t remember the last Mother’s Day I spent with my mum. It would have been in 2013, since in August of that year she died, but the...
    Why are we so obsessed with young, successful people like Sally Rooney?
    • Jan 14, 2019

    Why are we so obsessed with young, successful people like Sally Rooney?

    When 27-year-old novelist Sally Rooney became the youngest-ever winner of the Costa Book Prize last week, it was to deafening cheers of...