How to pandemic-proof a Hindu (or any other) pilgrimage
by Rashmee
Posted on April 24, 2021
/ FAITH, HOPE… One of my grandmothers died after contracting small pox at the Kumbh …
Read MoreBystander trauma: A tale of two countries, America and India
by Rashmee
Posted on April 20, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA The closing of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial is a …
Read MoreWhy it matters that American farmers are making common cause with India’s
by Rashmee
Posted on February 23, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA I find it interesting that 87 farmers’ unions in the United …
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 MoreOn the world stage, men and women leaders are merely players. They have their exits and entrances
by Rashmee
Posted on November 11, 2020
Many are offering a grim roundup of the disappointment being felt by some leaders and …
Read MoreDemocracy doesn’t have to be Western-style, nor the development template
by Rashmee
Posted on September 19, 2020
Veteran foreign policywallah Kishore Mahbubani once wrote a piece for The New York Times titled …
Read MoreMaking sense of Modi’s India: An ‘aam’ NRI’s view once again
by Rashmee
Posted on August 5, 2020
Now that Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for a Hindu …
Read MorePlato used the image of the political leader as a doctor. That is particularly true in a pandemic
by Rashmee
Posted on March 31, 2020
Taiwan’s remarkably effective response to the coronavirus pandemic is thought to be in some measure …
Read MoreTo be great, India and the US have to be good – part II
by Rashmee
Posted on March 7, 2020
I’m returning to a subject that has long preoccupied me. Both India, country …
Read MoreWith Donald Trump’s visit, US-India chemistry can no longer be dismissed as fiction
by Rashmee
Posted on February 25, 2020 / The National
There were bespoke broccoli samosas in Ahmedabad in western India; a watermelon carved with 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