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 …

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The 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 …

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Really? 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 …

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Coronation 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 …

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Shouldn’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 …

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The 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 …

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The 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 …

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‘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 …

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How 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 …

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Realism 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