The real meaning of ‘Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ’ in the public space in BJP-ruled India
by Rashmee
Posted on August 29, 2022
I feel there is a need for a codicil to my earlier blog on public …
Read MoreThe Rohingyas, like India’s Muslims, seem to be a second-string hard luck cause
by Rashmee
Posted on April 17, 2022
As with Muslims in India, Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims are denied the luxury afforded by the …
Read MoreThe West looks carefully away from the situation of Muslims in India
by Rashmee
Posted on April 16, 2022
As previously noted, the Indian authorities have conspicuously ignored physical and psychological assaults on Muslims …
Read MoreThe West sheds still more crocodile tears for Xinjiang
by Rashmee
Posted on April 14, 2022
On April 8, a Christian Chinese national who spent 10 months in a Xinjiang detention …
Read MoreYasser Arafat is arrested in India for pro-Palestinian FB post. Go figure
by Rashmee
Posted on June 4, 2021
/ LANGUAGE Here’s a quite remarkable story. In India, a 32-year-old man posted a pro-Palestine …
Read MoreIt’s worth reading why the half-Indian Marina Wheeler, Boris’s ex-wife, worries about Modi’s ‘New India’
by Rashmee
Posted on November 20, 2020
Marina Wheeler, barrister, former wife of Britain’s prime minister and the mother of four of …
Read MoreEarly Muslims’ attitude to art and creative expression
by Rashmee
Posted on September 4, 2020
In the beginning, there was art. Lots of it, in fact, in the secular space.…
Read MoreEid under lockdown: Art for the interminable now, the pandemic era
by Rashmee
Posted on May 25, 2020
The painting made its way around the locked-down world’s usual, no-touch channels of communication. There …
Read MoreDutch law on burqas reveals more than was intended
by Rashmee
Posted on August 2, 2019
The Netherlands is in a dither about burqas, niqabs and other face coverings. It’s banned …
Read MoreCorporate West embraces Ramadan but culturally it’s a work in progress
by Rashmee
Posted on May 5, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
A popular Washington restaurant signs on to a campaign to stay open longer or start …
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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