South Asia is mostly bad news…and then there’s Afghanistan
by Rashmee
Posted on April 5, 2022
Sri Lanka is in turmoil. Pakistan is in a political flux. India is stepping proud …
Read More‘Ukraine is like Afghanistan and the Russians are like the Taliban’: The NYT’s apophany
by Rashmee
Posted on February 16, 2022
According to The New York Times (NYT), Ukraine’s current situation – with the Russian bear …
Read MoreHow will Taliban 2.0 interpret Sharia law in Afghanistan?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 27, 2021 / The New European
This is the full (and free) version of the piece I wrote for The New …
Read MoreAmerica’s Talibanisation on abortion may go beyond the Taliban
by Rashmee
Posted on December 2, 2021
My husband, who trained as a lawyer and served as a criminal prosecutor in Wisconsin, …
Read MoreBelarus is weaponizing human beings. For years, Europe has done the same, in reverse
by Rashmee
Posted on November 14, 2021
Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, was spot on when he said that the border crisis…
Read MoreA baby is sold in Herat. A man sold his family in Thomas Hardy’s fictional Wessex
by Rashmee
Posted on October 26, 2021
Listening to the BBC’s Yogita Limaye report from Herat in western Afghanistan on the harrowing …
Read MoreVirtue, as the Taliban see it
by Rashmee
Posted on October 24, 2021
The Taliban, by some accounts, are not a particularly virtuous sort. They’ve allegedly been forcing …
Read More‘The world’s most effective democratically elected leader today’?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 22, 2021
“Bad news travels. Good news doesn’t”. Thus begins veteran Singapore diplomat Kishore Mahbubani’s piece …
Read MoreAfghanistan’s embassy in Washington, D.C. is like a metaphor for the country
by Rashmee
Posted on September 28, 2021
One of the plants in the big urns that flank the front door of the …
Read MoreAs the West cuts aid lifelines, Afghanistan’s real crisis looms
by Rashmee
Posted on September 21, 2021 / open Democracy
The world must take action now to prevent a deep and lasting humanitarian crisis. But …
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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