What’s with Nestle’s move to do the right thing on child labour?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 11, 2022
So here I was, wondering if Nestle, a company with an often unsavoury reputation, …
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 MoreAnti-abortion, pro-gun laws aren’t progressive but are they strictly anti-democratic?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 5, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA The other day Ed Luce, the Financial Times’s US editor, warned …
Read MoreTed Cruz’s push for belief over fact means Biden didn’t win, there was no moon landing, Elvis lives
by Rashmee
Posted on January 5, 2021
This week, Texas Senator Ted Cruz will lead nearly a dozen Republican colleagues in a …
Read MorePhilosophically speaking, John Gray is doing to cats what Thomas Nagel did to bats
by Rashmee
Posted on October 28, 2020
The other day I heard a philosopher do to cats what Thomas Nagel famously did …
Read MoreLike Trump, the 7th century Byzantine Empire invoked God
by Rashmee
Posted on October 9, 2020
Somewhat like Donald Trump, who was recently moved to discern the hand of God in …
Read MoreEveryone’s writing about philosophy. Especially the pundits
by Rashmee
Posted on September 23, 2020
On September 8, Washington Post columnist David Von Drehle wrote a piece on the lessons …
Read MoreRobinson Crusoe’s Arab Andalusian forbears?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 16, 2020
The story goes as follows. Ibn Tufail, a 12th century Arab Andalusian thinker, wrote a …
Read MoreBack to the culture wars then
by Rashmee
Posted on September 14, 2020
The gains from the Greek-to-Arabic translation movement were many. It proved to be a great …
Read MoreWhat was the logic of the Greek-to-Arabic translation movement?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 13, 2020
Why did the second Abbasid Caliph Al Mansur (r.754-775) initiate the Greek-to-Arabic translation movement? He …
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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