Is the G20 in trouble?

by Rashmee

Posted on September 4, 2023


President Xi Jinping is skipping the Group of 20 nations summit in India this coming …

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In the garden, shakkei ‘borrows scenery’ to frame, as would a photographer

by Rashmee

Posted on April 23, 2023


As someone who likes to garden, one of the more delightful concepts I recently learnt …

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For the West, the ‘Indian century’ may have already begun

by Rashmee

Posted on April 21, 2023


In the minds of many Western writers and thinkers, the “Indian century” may …

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As Paris pact turns five, climate change is the new cold war

by Rashmee

Posted on December 7, 2020


This is the week the Paris Climate Agreement marks its fifth birthday. December 12 is …

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What linked America’s un-presidential non-debate with a vegetable market in a poor country?

by Rashmee

Posted on October 6, 2020


As the US vice-presidential debate – the debate of the deputies – rolls around on …

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75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a novel about the crack that joins broken objects to their past

by Rashmee

Posted on August 3, 2020


In August 1946, a year after an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic …

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Trump eviscerates G7 - and America’s leadership

by Rashmee

Posted on May 31, 2020 / The Focus


Donald Trump wants to turn the G7 group of advanced economies into the ‘G10 or …

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Carlos Ghosn could be bad news for Lebanon

by Rashmee

Posted on January 12, 2020 / The Arab Weekly


The world is consumed by events in and about Iran and Iraq, as well as …

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Carlos Ghosn – the Lebanon connection

by Rashmee

Posted on December 31, 2019


When I heard about Carlos Ghosn’s flight to Lebanon from Japan, where he faces trial …

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‘Abe Shinzo’ wants to make Japan great again

by Rashmee

Posted on September 7, 2019


On Friday (Sep. 6), Japan’s education minister Masahiko Shibayama proposed to the cabinet that Japanese …

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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