Jeremy Seabrook
Articles by Jeremy Seabrook
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Society
For better, for worse
- 21 June 2004
Valentina and Karim are in love, but romance isn't allowed at an asylum-seeker's wedding
Economy
Say it with flowers
- 16 February 2004
The blooms you buy on St Valentine's Day are likely to have been cultivated overseas, by women working in harsh, often illegal conditions
World Affairs
Far from home, they toil to buy a fridge for Mama
- 09 June 2003
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
World Affairs
Ghosts in the city of widows
- 16 December 2002
When their husbands die, devout Indian women make the pilgrimage to Vrindavan, where they will pray for others, and await their own deaths
Politics
The ghosts of empire haunt the city of night and joy
- 28 May 2001
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
Politics
A blood-filled feast to celebrate God's kindness
- 19 March 2001
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
Politics
It's all a mugger's game now
- 29 January 2001
Targets, checklists, even extra cash, may not help the NHS and the police. They were just not designed for the violence of our age
