The chapati is everywhere in Tunisia but no one knows how or why
by Rashmee
Posted on August 31, 2015
No one is able to accurately say how the chapati has come to be one …
Read MoreIn Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia bares its Sufi soul & anxiety about ISIL’s imprint
by Rashmee
Posted on August 30, 2015
If there can be any measure of Tunisia’s anxiety about the extremist imprint, it came …
Read MoreOn refugees, Angela Merkel has been nothing like that ugly new verb, Merkeln
by Rashmee
Posted on August 29, 2015
The migration issue – and Germany’s remarkable response to it this week – means it …
Read MoreI say jalebi, Tunisia says z’labia. Could this Indian sweet really be Levantine?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 28, 2015
It was India’s ambassador in Tunisia, the charming, erudite and variously talented Nagma Malik who …
Read MoreNow it’s personal: fighting back can help defeat terror
by Rashmee
Posted on August 27, 2015 / The National
Six unarmed men prevented “veritable carnage”, as France’s president put it, by tackling a Kalashnikov-wielding …
Read MoreCorbynomics & quantitive easing: ‘Twas Pat Moynihan who got there first
by Rashmee
Posted on August 26, 2015
Indians of a certain age (or with excellent memories) will remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan mainly …
Read MoreDonald Trump’s nativist bandwagon: Would he throw someone like me off?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 25, 2015
Listen carefully to the Americans around you. The ones who are American by blood – …
Read MoreWhy is everyone equating Jeremy Corbyn with Donald Trump?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 24, 2015
They are not two of a kind. Just being front-runners (for party nomination) on either …
Read MoreCorbyn-truths: We don’t have to wait for Chilcot to know Iraq was a mistake
by Rashmee
Posted on August 23, 2015
You have to admire a man who doesn’t change his mind. Or, at least, you …
Read MoreDoes #Hillary have some secret yoga move she wants to protect?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 22, 2015
So Hillary was always a winner but will she win this one? Should she? Eugene …
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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