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 …
Read MoreIn 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 …
Read MoreFor 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 …
Read MoreAs 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 …
Read MoreWhat 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 …
Read More75 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 …
Read MoreTrump 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 …
Read MoreCarlos 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 …
Read MoreCarlos 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 …
Read More‘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