Battle of the green great grandfathers
by Rashmee
Posted on March 11, 2023
Having come across some interesting mature trees recently, I remembered Gran Abuelo, literally great-grandfather in …
Read MoreTwo linguistics professors & an AI company head walk into a bar…
by Rashmee
Posted on March 10, 2023
Two professors of linguistics and the director of a science and tech company walk into …
Read MoreAI makes (a dog’s) dinner
by Rashmee
Posted on March 9, 2023
Here’s a kitchen experiment with AI. The ingredients in my fridge one weeknight were as …
Read MoreReclaiming the streets from the ‘horseless carriage’ Benz built
by Rashmee
Posted on March 8, 2023
The notion that the car enhances our lives is being severely tested in the rich …
Read MoreSeeing the back of the Automobile Age
by Rashmee
Posted on March 7, 2023
Can this really be true? That young people in the global north are falling out …
Read MoreThe car has had a good run from the first ‘horseless carriage’ to the Automobile Age
by Rashmee
Posted on March 6, 2023
In his 2013 novel The Automobile Club of Egypt, Alaa Al Aswany portrays a famous …
Read MoreCamilla won’t wear Kohinoor, but what about Cullinan?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 5, 2023 / The Times of India
Europe’s former colonial powers are trying desperately to shed the burden of history. France’s Emmanuel …
Read More‘Dig for Brexit’, literally
by Rashmee
Posted on March 3, 2023
In Britain, vegetable seeds are worth their weight in tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and avocadoes, the …
Read MoreStop worrying so much. ChatGPT won’t make us writers irrelevant…yet
by Rashmee
Posted on March 2, 2023
As a member of the US association, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), it’s my …
Read MoreIndia too, like the US, makes distastefully pragmatic policy choices
by Rashmee
Posted on March 1, 2023
Western politicians can often be pretty tone deaf about the oil price compulsions that guide …
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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