Visa rules aren’t vaccines. War against polio cannot stop at India-Pak border
by Rashmee
Posted on December 16, 2013
If there’s anything that underlines the great gulf between India and Pakistan, it is the …
Read More#Mandela’s final journey: Death the last sleep or final awakening for all of us?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 15, 2013
“We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to,” Graham …
Read MoreScullion! Rampallian. Fustilarian. North Korea and the Shakespearean curse
by Rashmee
Posted on December 14, 2013
However nerd-like Kim Jong-un is occasionally rumoured to be, there’s something devilishly Elizabethan about North …
Read MoreElginism: The Chinese lose their marbles over excesses of an English Earl
by Rashmee
Posted on December 11, 2013
David Cameron’s record in the last few weeks has been patchy: He posed for a …
Read MoreOn the political red carpet for the man only a very few should call ‘Madiba’
by Rashmee
Posted on December 10, 2013
Today’s memorial service for Nelson Mandela is the red carpet of the political world. Those …
Read MoreBlack Friday:American cultural export as useful as a backwards baseball cap?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 30, 2013
A little like McDonald’s (or even the baseball cap worn backwards) , Black Friday is …
Read MoreWar is hell: Like WWI, Afghan artists need to get the message across
by Rashmee
Posted on November 16, 2013
Medical plasters turned into three-dimensional images. A legless, armless body. A dried cow’s head stuffed …
Read MoreTroubled Commonwealth summit begins, as old order changeth?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 15, 2013
It’s awfully bad luck for the Commonwealth but its summit begins in Sri Lanka today …
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Charles, Forgotten Prince and pensioner
by Rashmee
Posted on November 14, 2013
Prince Charles – putative king of Britain for as long as anyone can remember; fiendish …
Read MoreBy 2030, Jack The Ripper will be gruesome but no longer a mystery
by Rashmee
Posted on November 10, 2013
Series four of ITV’s ‘Whitechapel’ launched some weeks ago and it’s astonishing to note the …
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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