Almodovar’s new film and the burdens of remembering the Spanish civil war
by Rashmee
Posted on January 31, 2022
This is not the year of a big birthday in case of the Spanish civil …
Read MoreAt school in India, we learnt to honour ‘Netaji’ Bose, not to imitate him
by Rashmee
Posted on January 30, 2022
With respect to the sort of responses drawn by any commentary (questioning, even if not …
Read MoreLooking for ‘Mein Kampf’ in London and Delhi
by Rashmee
Posted on January 29, 2022
Almost exactly a year ago, a friend started to talk about ‘Mein Kampf”. He was …
Read More‘All the world’s somewhat corrupt and men and women merely players’
by Rashmee
Posted on January 28, 2022
The worry of Transparency International’s new corruption perception index is that so much of the …
Read MoreBeware the rich, de-dollarised Russian bear
by Rashmee
Posted on January 27, 2022
There are three reasons to wonder if Putin’s Russia is as much on the ropes …
Read MoreSome surprising actors want the Yankees in their backyard
by Rashmee
Posted on January 26, 2022
The Estonians want the Americans to stand guard in the Baltics. So too, it seems, …
Read MoreMarket fundamentalism is over, more or less, but what’s taken its place?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 25, 2022
Economist James K Galbraith recently argued that “the free-market, deregulate-and-privatize verities” of a previous generation …
Read MoreLiving with – or without – Covid
by Rashmee
Posted on January 24, 2022
On Saturday, it was two years exactly since China put Wuhan in quarantine. On January …
Read MoreAre the unvaccinated becoming modern-day lepers?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 23, 2022 / open Democracy
Will ‘health taxes’, fines, bans on foreign travel and a French strategy of ‘pissing them …
Read MoreGaelige and Brussels’ Tower of Babel
by Rashmee
Posted on January 22, 2022
The year opened with good news for speakers of Irish or Gaelige. On January 1, …
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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