What? So India has graduated from poor-country club but won’t let go of aid?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 31, 2016
The other day I read about the extent to which India had graduated from the …
Read MoreCollective punishment leads to radicalisation
by Rashmee
Posted on May 29, 2016 / The Arab Weekly
News that the brother of a Brussels suicide bomber will represent Belgium at the Summer …
Read MoreCan Congress ever be relevant in India again?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 26, 2016 / The National
Yet again, and crucially for the second time in two years, a political obituary is …
Read MoreGermany’s backhanded compliment to Maghreb countries
by Rashmee
Posted on May 22, 2016 / The Arab Weekly
Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco have received a backhanded compliment from Germany, Europe’s most industrialised and …
Read MoreHalal food, Hui Muslims & Yinchuan. Beijing says this is Chinese Islam
by Rashmee
Posted on May 21, 2016
What do you think of when I say the words “Chinese Islam”? The Uighurs probably, …
Read MoreIn our age of distrust, who do you have faith in?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 19, 2016 / The National
In this age of distrust, amateurism and automation are supposed to be the only things …
Read MoreIs the Japanese concept of Komorebi (see pic) really culturally untranslatable?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 18, 2016
Someone posted a blog that listed “11 beautiful Japanese words that don’t exist in English’, …
Read MoreIn 21st cent, politics, protest and story-telling as usual is no longer possible
by Rashmee
Posted on May 17, 2016
Politics as usual is no longer possible in the 21st century, The Economist recently …
Read MoreBRICS really should have been Cribs. That would have been more realistic
by Rashmee
Posted on May 16, 2016
How far we have come from that day in November when news came that Goldman …
Read MoreTrump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric is affecting the United States
by Rashmee
Posted on May 15, 2016 / The Arab Weekly
Sadiq Khan, London’s newly elected mayor, used the first 24 hours after his win to …
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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