Parsing to death. If it’s causing terror, it’s a terrorist act
by Rashmee
Posted on April 16, 2013
“The latest,” as Foreign Policy’s inimitable Situation Report says of the explosions at the Boston …
Read MoreWhat Justin Bieber thinks of Anne Frank (& 10 historical figures)
by Rashmee
Posted on April 15, 2013
Not being 13, I have never consciously listened to a Justin Bieber song. However, it …
Read MoreChimamanda Adichie, chronicler of our restless age of travel
by Rashmee
Posted on April 11, 2013
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Americanah’ is for PLUS (people like us), for anyone who has travelled …
Read MoreDon’t bank on it: Chavez’s Banco del Sur; a BRICS bank
by Rashmee
Posted on April 9, 2013
The words ‘Bank of the South’ come to mind as one reads Foreign Policy on…
Read MoreMrs Thatcher: Britain’s tough-love sweetheart
by Rashmee
Posted on April 8, 2013
The point about Margaret Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter, free-marketeer and deeply divisive ideologue, was that …
Read MoreSo Obama shouldn’t have noticed Kamala Harris is a woman?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 5, 2013
It’s hard to get self-righteous about President Obama’s supposedly sexist comment about his old friend …
Read MoreWhat if Kim Jong-un sees it all as a reality video game?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 4, 2013
Patrick Cronin’s Foreign Policy piece on how the second Korean war could start (as the …
Read MoreGender she-saw: The storm in the stewpot
by Rashmee
Posted on April 2, 2013
Everyone is getting worked up about The New York Times’s obit on the rocket scientist, …
Read MoreNovartis’s India headache: The emerging pharma problem
by Rashmee
Posted on April 1, 2013
India has thumbed its nose at the pharmaceutical giant Novartis. There are two ways of …
Read More3 strikes and you’re out of the news game:A BBC story
by Rashmee
Posted on March 29, 2013
Every time I hear my friend and former BBC World Service colleague Andrew Whitehead on …
Read MoreRashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK