This-century stories: Down and out in Paris, not London
by Rashmee
Posted on June 30, 2014
Economic gloom hangs over Paris like a pall. The authorities, says The Washington Post, via …
Read MoreHaiti makes it to world’s top 10…but it’s the fragile states index
by Rashmee
Posted on June 29, 2014
Haiti has a place in the world’s top 10, but there’s little to celebrate. It …
Read MoreIndia’s future does not lie in a highly mythologised past
by Rashmee
Posted on June 28, 2014 / The National
India’s secular old order has never seemed so fragile as in the month since Narendra …
Read MoreBrawn versus brain drain? The right terminology for the 21st century
by Rashmee
Posted on June 28, 2014
Is it time to update the term ‘brain drain’ and allow a more nuanced view …
Read MoreThe food diary Louisa M Alcott might have written back in the 19th cent
by Rashmee
Posted on June 27, 2014
What might Louisa M Alcott have liked to eat? Buzzfeed’s flight of imagination – a …
Read MoreThe only places we want to visit are the ones no one’s ever heard of
by Rashmee
Posted on June 26, 2014
Never heard of Amadubi? Parule & Bhogwe? Hankon, Damro, Garamur, Jawai, Manipat, Urakam, Poppalwadi or …
Read MoreDubai city: Perils of being the eternal transit point to everywhere
by Rashmee
Posted on June 25, 2014
Dubai is a city of gold because it has its head in the clouds. Literally. …
Read MoreDemocracy is the only self-correcting tool available to countries like India
by Rashmee
Posted on June 24, 2014
Democracy, says Isobel Coleman of the Council on Foreign Relations, is going through a rough …
Read MoreHaiti is a supremely sullen member of the world’s 23-country no-army brigade
by Rashmee
Posted on June 23, 2014
“There are currently 23 countries in the world that maintain no army, and they seem …
Read MoreMamba mia: Haiti and the glorious possibilities of peanut power
by Rashmee
Posted on June 22, 2014
Haiti may be energy-poor but it is rich in peanuts, aka mamba. So why not …
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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