Lessons Nepal can learn from its tragic twin Haiti
by Rashmee
Posted on April 30, 2015 / The National
Nepal faces a Himalayan task: it must overcome the aftershocks of history just as much …
Read MoreKey lessons for Nepal from post-quake Haiti, but will anyone listen?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 29, 2015
“The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission needed to be swift and nimble,” writes American anthropologist, physician, …
Read MoreNepal & Haiti were once part of different community of sorrow: cholera
by Rashmee
Posted on April 28, 2015
Till Saturday’s earthquake, the only time the words “Haiti” and “Nepal” appeared in one sentence, …
Read MoreAmerica’s raisin wars: Farmers don’t want to give govt part of crop for free
by Rashmee
Posted on April 27, 2015
Speaking of farmers in India, heard the one about the US Federal Raisin Reserve? It’s …
Read MoreFarming is the lifeblood of India; it shouldn’t be death to its farmers
by Rashmee
Posted on April 26, 2015
So what can be done about India’s huge population of farmers? It’s not realistic (or …
Read MoreGajendra Singh’s ‘suicide attack’ on India’s easy assumptions about progress
by Rashmee
Posted on April 25, 2015
How should deal Narendra Modi’s India deal with such hideous events as the suicide of …
Read MoreRe-making a post-apocalyptic world sans fossil fuels? Brazil has the answer
by Rashmee
Posted on April 24, 2015
“Is there any chance, for instance, that a post-apocalyptic society could reboot a technological civilization?” …
Read MoreThe rich world cannot live in an anti-migrant fortress
by Rashmee
Posted on April 23, 2015 / The National
Unless the world is remade as a far fairer place, there is no real way …
Read MoreWhat’s the price of a grenade vs a coke in the Central African Republic?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 22, 2015
It was a piece on endonyms, a country’s own name for itself (in its own …
Read MoreThe American century is not really over, a Chinese one has not really begun
by Rashmee
Posted on April 21, 2015
The American century is not really over and a Chinese one has not really …
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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