Asean, G20: Summits are peak diplomacy

by Rashmee

Posted on September 17, 2023 / This Week, Those Books


Welcome to This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new and old that resonate …

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Asean, G20: Summits are peak diplomacy

by Rashmee

Posted on September 6, 2023 / This Week, Those Books


Welcome to This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new and old that resonate …

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Is Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris a tick-the-box exercise?

by Rashmee

Posted on April 26, 2023


At the outset, let me just say, I vote Democrat and in the state of …

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Sweden 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 …

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85 minutes as president. Kamala Harris’ place in history

by Rashmee

Posted on November 19, 2021


Her DNA ensured Kamala Harris made history on November 3, 2020, when she became the …

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Who are the women driving Joe Biden’s success?

by Rashmee

Posted on November 9, 2020 / The National


Whatever happens next as Joe Biden prepares to govern America come January 20, his defeat …

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Expect fewer vices in the Pence-Harris debate

by Rashmee

Posted on October 7, 2020 / The National


In normal times, a vice-presidential debate doesn’t rank high on the roster of set-piece events …

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The grey areas in America’s understanding of race

by Rashmee

Posted on August 30, 2020


Why should it have taken a Kamala Harris – half Jamaican, half Indian, all American …

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Kamala Harris and the complexity of racial identity

by Rashmee

Posted on August 25, 2020 / The National


Harris’s birth certificate alone illustrates the problem of rigid binary notions around identity in the …

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Sexist Politics: The rest of the world is no different from India

by Rashmee

Posted on May 18, 2019 / First Post


Unlikeable. Unelectable. Those are just two of the adjectives being applied to some of the …

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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