Anika Khanam, Author at The Oxford Blue

The Sympathetic Ear: Growing Up Around My Mother’s OCD

by Anika Khanam October 24, 2026October 24, 2026

Joint Honours Degrees: Double the Work or Double the Indecision?

Anika Khanam Oct 24, 2026 5 min read

A desk in front a window which looks out onto the Radcliffe Camera

Joint honours students deserve more respect. Why, you might ask, when they are clearly just dithering between two subjects? As one particularly blunt tutor put…

The Sympathetic Ear: Growing Up Around My Mother’s OCD

Anika Khanam Oct 24, 2026 6 min read

I remember walking home one autumn evening when I was eleven years old, holding my mother’s hand as tears welled up in her eyes. Though…

A Big, Beautiful Irony: DJT Climate Warrior in Wolf’s Clothing?

Anika Khanam Oct 24, 2026 8 min read

Donald Trump smiling, with his thumbs up.

When Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, rolled back drilling restrictions, ordered the expansion of coal mining, and dismissed the…

High Table: Reviews by The Blue | New College

Anika Khanam Oct 24, 2026 5 min read

‘There’s nothing that screams “Oxford” quite as much as the formal dinner. After all, there aren’t that many places where you can get dressed up…