What links the late Idriss Deby’s Chad to Egypt and India
by Rashmee
Posted on April 21, 2021
/ TAKE UP ONE IDEA The death of Idriss Deby, president of Chad for …
Read MoreBystander trauma: A tale of two countries, America and India
by Rashmee
Posted on April 20, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA The closing of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial is a …
Read MoreAmerica’s bad news bias is a feature not a bug
by Rashmee
Posted on April 6, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA Bad news bias is not breaking news. Recently published research by …
Read MoreThe terrible truths about politics and power in America
by Rashmee
Posted on March 25, 2021
/IT’S THE BUSINESS For those who don’t know about ‘Popular Information’, it’s a newsletter that …
Read MoreWhat might the big Biden controversy be? White French cuffs?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 23, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA As usual, Ed Luce of the Financial Times put it best…
Read MoreThere may be room for experienced optimists yet in the Middle East
by Rashmee
Posted on March 9, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA A former Israeli prime minister once said that in the Middle …
Read MoreGeorge Shultz and the essential Dutch art of doing nothing
by Rashmee
Posted on February 27, 2021
/ FAITH, HOPE… By pure coincidence, I received an email from Blackwell’s, the legendary 19th …
Read MoreWhy it matters that American farmers are making common cause with India’s
by Rashmee
Posted on February 23, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA I find it interesting that 87 farmers’ unions in the United …
Read MoreBiden wants the US to be a values-driven leader but is the world buying it?
by Rashmee
Posted on February 16, 2021 / The National
This weekend marks US President Joe Biden’s first month in the Oval Office, which means …
Read MoreImpeachment: The American equivalent of a parliamentary no-confidence vote?
by Rashmee
Posted on February 15, 2021
/ POLITICS IN AMERICA On the Friday before Donald Trump was acquitted for a second …
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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