How harissa, turban-shaped salt cellar and a matka can evoke a whole culture
by Rashmee
Posted on September 5, 2022
Three airline meal trays, three cultures, instant messaging. Destination marketing and country marketing are …
Read More‘Narendra Modi’s political good fortune’
by Rashmee
Posted on September 1, 2022
India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi is blessed. He rules the world’s largest democracy …
Read MoreWhat this dargah in Landour, high up in the Garhwal Himalayas, says about Modi’s India
by Rashmee
Posted on August 25, 2022
In Landour, high in the Garhwal Himalayas, sits a dargah or shrine of a Muslim …
Read MoreAt 75, India and Pakistan look more and more like each other
by Rashmee
Posted on August 12, 2022 / open Democracy
In 75 years as independent countries, India and Pakistan have become more alike than seemed …
Read MoreThe Rohingyas, like India’s Muslims, seem to be a second-string hard luck cause
by Rashmee
Posted on April 17, 2022
As with Muslims in India, Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims are denied the luxury afforded by the …
Read MoreThe West looks carefully away from the situation of Muslims in India
by Rashmee
Posted on April 16, 2022
As previously noted, the Indian authorities have conspicuously ignored physical and psychological assaults on Muslims …
Read MoreThe West suffers selective myopia and amnesia over India’s Muslims
by Rashmee
Posted on April 15, 2022
Here’s a good example of the way the Indian authorities ignore physical assaults on Muslims …
Read MoreThe West sheds still more crocodile tears for Xinjiang
by Rashmee
Posted on April 14, 2022
On April 8, a Christian Chinese national who spent 10 months in a Xinjiang detention …
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 More‘French beserk’: The Eric Zemmour effect
by Rashmee
Posted on November 15, 2021
I was very taken by Adam Shatz’s piece in the London Review of Books …
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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