New Statesman - <![CDATA[Jeremy Seabrook]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/jeremy_seabrook en <![CDATA[Political purification]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/05/bangladesh-present http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/05/bangladesh-present Mon, 14 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook Observations on Bangladesh

]]> <![CDATA[For better, for worse]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200406210017 http://www.newstatesman.com/200406210017 Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook Valentina and Karim are in love, but romance isn't allowed at an asylum-seeker's wedding

]]> <![CDATA[A bit of moderate Muslim torture]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200405100011 http://www.newstatesman.com/200405100011 Mon, 10 May 2004 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook Observations on Bangladesh

]]> <![CDATA[Say it with flowers]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200402160015 http://www.newstatesman.com/200402160015 Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook The blooms you buy on St Valentine's Day are likely to have been cultivated overseas, by women working in harsh, often illegal conditions

]]> <![CDATA[The story of Anna and Rashid]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200312150014 http://www.newstatesman.com/200312150014 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook By Jeremy Seabrook

]]> <![CDATA[Far from home, they toil to buy a fridge for Mama]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200306090019 http://www.newstatesman.com/200306090019 Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook For some countries, the money sent home by migrants comes to as much as a quarter of national income. Yet when the exiles return to their roots to enjoy their wealth, they are not always welcome

]]> <![CDATA[Ghosts in the city of widows]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160029 http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160029 Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook When their husbands die, devout Indian women make the pilgrimage to Vrindavan, where they will pray for others, and await their own deaths

]]> <![CDATA[The ghosts of empire haunt the city of night and joy]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200105280021 http://www.newstatesman.com/200105280021 Mon, 28 May 2001 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook The fractious memsahibs and exuberant soldiers of the Raj may lie dead and buried, but Calcutta's tourists are merely the camp-followers of a new imperialism

]]> <![CDATA[A blood-filled feast to celebrate God's kindness]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200103190018 http://www.newstatesman.com/200103190018 Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook Imagine a city where, in a single day, 100,000 cattle are slaughtered on the streets. Jeremy Seabrook, himself a vegetarian, attends the festival of Eid in Dhaka

]]> <![CDATA[It's all a mugger's game now]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200101290015 http://www.newstatesman.com/200101290015 Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Seabrook Targets, checklists, even extra cash, may not help the NHS and the police. They were just not designed for the violence of our age

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