Mission Impossible for India’s new Bond-style film to reset the country’s political plot?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 25, 2023
From January 25, India and much of the world gets to see Shah Rukh Khan’s …
Read MoreWhat happened in Leicester?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 28, 2022 / The New European
A shocking outbreak of violence shows that a multicultural society is open to radical ideas …
Read MoreThe West suffers selective myopia and amnesia over India’s Muslims
by Rashmee
Posted on April 15, 2022
Here’s a good example of the way the Indian authorities ignore physical assaults on Muslims …
Read MoreHow Al-Farabi drew on Plato to argue for censorship in Islam
by Rashmee
Posted on November 12, 2018 / Aeon
You might not be familiar with the name Al-Farabi, a 10th-century thinker from Baghdad, but …
Read MoreAs for Uighurs, China says it’s fighting the war on terror that the West lost
by Rashmee
Posted on September 17, 2018
If you thought the Uighur issue had Beijing on the back foot, think again. It’s …
Read MoreWhen did the West lose Turkey?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 7, 2018
Today is a good day to talk about Turkey, whose president meets his Iranian and …
Read MoreShall we decode why the Finns talked of a ‘terrorist attack’ but Marseille did not?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 22, 2017
The incident in Marseille on Monday, August 21 – when a van was driven into …
Read MoreLet’s stop doing the terrorists’ job for them and start calling these attacks ‘crimes’
by Rashmee
Posted on March 28, 2017
I implore you to watch Simon Jenkins’ comments on a BBC programme about the urgent …
Read MoreHey, Indian-Americans & other US Desis, Trump’s Bannon is coming for you next
by Rashmee
Posted on January 31, 2017
Even if you’re not Muslim, you should be seriously worried about how to live in …
Read MoreCamels and why mountains have traditionally provided havens for minorities
by Rashmee
Posted on January 16, 2017
This year’s camel beauty contest at Al Dhafra reminded me of my visit to 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