Best of times and worst of times: July 2005, last G8 summit in UK
by Rashmee
Posted on June 16, 2013
The last G8 summit in the UK was both the best of times and the …
Read MoreRouhani’s #Iran: Conservatively moderate or moderately conservative?
by Rashmee
Posted on June 15, 2013
Is Hassan Rouhani’s victory, in the words of the Iranian proverb, a stone thrown …
Read MoreChoosing Iran’s president from 6 different shades of black
by Rashmee
Posted on June 14, 2013
The world will know which way the Iranian election has gone at roughly half-8 in …
Read MoreUK’s new Haiti embassy: More business-savvy than saviour
by Rashmee
Posted on June 8, 2013
As someone with a vested interest, it is great and good news that Britain is …
Read MoreThe Caribbean Island experience: Futile or fun & frolic?
by Rashmee
Posted on June 7, 2013
So, it’s got it all. Sun, sea and sand. And the Flamboyant Tree (what we …
Read MoreSt Maarten: Free in every way. Duty-free, history-free
by Rashmee
Posted on June 6, 2013
Now that I’m here, sitting in St Maarten, hair blown into unmanageable clumps by …
Read MoreThe singer is dead. Long live the Aborigine anthem of inclusiveness
by Rashmee
Posted on June 3, 2013
Till his death, Mandawuy Yunupingu was just a voice to me. Then I learnt …
Read MoreEnglish has an enormous share of #HaitianCreole
by Rashmee
Posted on June 1, 2013
According to the blog Memorize Haitian Creole, the way words have been swapped between English …
Read MoreEdmund Hillary, 1953: It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves
by Rashmee
Posted on May 29, 2013
“I was naturally very pleased to get there, you can imagine we had some difficulty …
Read MoreFBI shoots dead Orlando Chechen; Woolwich attackers shot but still alive
by Rashmee
Posted on May 23, 2013
Wider than the Atlantic Ocean. Deeper than the cultural underpinnings of different ways to spell …
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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