Taos Pueblo’s new church still throbs with old colonial traumas
by Rashmee
Posted on May 15, 2023
In Taos Pueblo, the Unesco World Heritage site that preserves a 1,000-year way of …
Read MoreThe southwest: Snake sticks and ‘America’s first apartment house’
by Rashmee
Posted on May 11, 2023
The southwest of America, as I learnt from the Doris Kindersley Eyewitness Guide, is a …
Read MoreReally? King Charles has already started to make reparations
by Rashmee
Posted on May 3, 2023
American playwright and critic Bonnie Greer recently offered an interesting perspective (paywall) on increasingly loud …
Read MoreCoronation countdown II: Look who’s celebrating
by Rashmee
Posted on May 2, 2023
As it turns out retailers are bending the knee and doffing their cap with gay …
Read MoreShouldn’t the French get with the script?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 1, 2023
Over on my substack Joining the Dots, my former BBC colleague Henri Astier makes …
Read MoreThe first coronation of the social-media era
by Rashmee
Posted on April 30, 2023
In 1953, recounts an American media outlet, television was in its infancy and a crowd …
Read MoreThe reason Ron DeSantis bangs his not very big drum on the big world stage
by Rashmee
Posted on April 28, 2023
It says something that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ended his four-nation ‘world tour’ in London …
Read More‘We are not amused’, India says of Der Spiegel’s cartoon on world’s most populous nation
by Rashmee
Posted on April 27, 2023
In 2000, a cartoon in The Times of India, one of India’s largest newspapers, showed …
Read MoreHow to end the Ukraine war: Talks can’t aim to solve everything, everywhere all at once
by Rashmee
Posted on April 25, 2023
Richard Haass is a professional peacenik. In the sense, that he’s an American diplomat and …
Read MoreRealism over the Ukraine war requires both weapons surge and diplomatic flurry
by Rashmee
Posted on April 19, 2023
Will the casual leaking of top secret Pentagon documents change the course of the Ukraine …
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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