The first coronation of the social-media era
by Rashmee
Posted on April 30, 2023
In 1953, recounts an American media outlet, television was in its infancy and a crowd …
Read MoreAs Britain’s King Charles III visits, Germany fondly recalls he’s “half German”
by Rashmee
Posted on March 29, 2023
“How German are the British royals?” Germany’s public broadcaster funded Deutsche Welle (DW) …
Read MoreTumult in paradise? St. Kitts and Nevis, one of Britain’s ‘realms’, plans ahead
by Rashmee
Posted on October 29, 2022
Here’s a handy way to remember history if you’re thinking about St. Kitts and Nevis …
Read MoreBritain’s new Carolean age is beset by the unfinished business of history
by Rashmee
Posted on October 15, 2022 / Hindustan Times
The complications of King Charles III’s reign start with the name of this new era. …
Read MoreHow and why Britain’s greatest inventions of royal ritual and pageantry came about
by Rashmee
Posted on September 21, 2022
Historian David Cannadine begins his chapter in ‘The Invention of Tradition’, the 1983 …
Read MoreAmerica’s record on Haiti and Biden’s right to be at the Queen’s funeral – II
by Rashmee
Posted on September 18, 2022
US president Joe Biden is key to our discussion of the rightness or wrongness of …
Read MoreAmerica’s record on Haiti: Should Biden be on that good-to-go list for Queen’s funeral?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 17, 2022
Shouldn’t Joe Biden be on the lengthening list of leaders that human rights champions want …
Read MoreIn Britain, emotion runs high and pound falls to 37-year low
by Rashmee
Posted on September 16, 2022
Much of the British media is at the races, metaphorically speaking, as it excitedly, if …
Read More‘Off with their heads’: The queenly Liz Truss
by Rashmee
Posted on September 15, 2022
In the days after Queen Elizabeth II’s passing, the woman with aspirations to a steely …
Read More‘Royal Family’, the 1969 documentary you aren’t meant to see, has some real gems
by Rashmee
Posted on September 12, 2022
Royalist or not, you might want to watch ‘Royal Family’, a 53-year-old documentary …
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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