India Has a Woman Problem

by Rashmee

Posted on December 28, 2012 / Foreign Policy


And there’s no denying it anymore. A young woman is savagely gang-raped and beaten one …

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The future is grim

by Rashmee

Posted on December 22, 2012 / Hindustan Times


No one does bloody tragedy better than America. Over and over. Columbine High School. Virginia …

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India: Still waiting for the sexual revolution

by Rashmee

Posted on December 21, 2012


The brutal gangrape in Delhi of a 23-year-old woman has set off a particularly vicious …

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Can’t ban guns? Tax ammo through the roof

by Rashmee

Posted on December 20, 2012


If you can’t ban guns, at least raise taxes on ammunition. By 100 per cent …

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Buy a gun at Walmart but not a bottle of wine

by Rashmee

Posted on December 16, 2012


Here, for what it’s worth, is my America-and-guns story. Arriving in this country from the …

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Chavez successor Venezuela’s Uriah Heep?

by Rashmee

Posted on December 13, 2012


So the Venezuelan vice-president Nicolas Maduro is pleading with President Chavez to return to Caracas …

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What on earth is Celebrity Studies?

by Rashmee

Posted on December 12, 2012


One of the world’s most extraordinary conferences opens in Melbourne on Wednesday, December 12. It’s …

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The Pocahontas Principle of off-the-grid living

by Rashmee

Posted on December 11, 2012


Slate has kicked off its brand new photo blog (called Behold) with a look …

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Down Down Under? Stuff and nonsense

by Rashmee

Posted on December 10, 2012


Anyone following the screaming headlines about the “fragile” and teary Australian radio hosts who made …

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Israeli PM sees both Hamas, Fatah as ‘moving away from peace’. Shame

by Rashmee

Posted on December 9, 2012


Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations, metaphorically …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK