‘All the world’s somewhat corrupt and men and women merely players’
by Rashmee
Posted on January 28, 2022
The worry of Transparency International’s new corruption perception index is that so much of the …
Read MoreEscaping the shadow of the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher
by Rashmee
Posted on January 20, 2022 / The New European
Would hopefuls like Liz Truss and Valérie Pécresse deliver a calmer, fresher politics in the …
Read MoreHow will Taliban 2.0 interpret Sharia law in Afghanistan?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 27, 2021 / The New European
This is the full (and free) version of the piece I wrote for The New …
Read MoreAmerica’s Talibanisation on abortion may go beyond the Taliban
by Rashmee
Posted on December 2, 2021
My husband, who trained as a lawyer and served as a criminal prosecutor in Wisconsin, …
Read MoreThe woman who led Barbados in its brave leap forward
by Rashmee
Posted on December 1, 2021
The truth about Barbados’s transition to a republic is as follows: It wouldn’t have happened …
Read MoreHow a US kidnapping gave hope in the global fight against domestic violence
by Rashmee
Posted on November 28, 2021 / open Democracy
Earlier this month, a missing teenage girl was rescued from a car in Kentucky when …
Read MoreSweden gets its own Indira Gandhi…or not
by Rashmee
Posted on November 24, 2021
By the evening of November 24, within hours of taking office, Magdalena Andersson had resigned …
Read MoreWhat’s nude for your skin colour?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 10, 2021
Funnily enough, it was the OZY newletter (from the media outlet that’s in rather bad …
Read MoreVirtue, as the Taliban see it
by Rashmee
Posted on October 24, 2021
The Taliban, by some accounts, are not a particularly virtuous sort. They’ve allegedly been forcing …
Read MoreSabina Nessa and the ‘missing white woman syndrome’
by Rashmee
Posted on September 24, 2021
When people talk about the decline of the American empire, they reckon without the force …
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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