Shouldn’t LA have a film director l’eminence instead of a poet-laureate?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 19, 2016
When I say Los Angeles of what do I think film, television Paramount Pictures, Universal …
Read MorePaul Theroux and the Gujarati chemist in a ghost town in the American South
by Rashmee
Posted on March 29, 2015
It’s probably entirely unsurprising that Paul Theroux found a Gujarati chemist in Allendale, the decrepit …
Read MorePaul Theroux in America’s Deep South: An Ibn Batuta for the 21st cent
by Rashmee
Posted on March 28, 2015
Paul Theroux’s magnificent Smithsonian essay on America’s Deep South, 50 years after the civil rights …
Read MoreMidterm elections: Does the US have too much law & too much democracy?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 4, 2014
America’s midterm elections today, Tuesday, November 4, are a good day to consider Francis Fukuyama’s …
Read MoreUS midterm elections & the three D’s: Dynasty, deja vu, die-hardism
by Rashmee
Posted on November 3, 2014
Funnily enough, tomorrow’s US midterm elections may be all about three D’s: dynasty, deja vu, …
Read MoreAmerica’s schools, like its best companies, need CEOs. Here’s why
by Rashmee
Posted on October 21, 2014
Jean Desravines, chief executive officer of an American nonprofit that focuses on developing transformational school …
Read MoreAmerica’s militarized streets can’t fully explain #MichaelBrown’s death
by Rashmee
Posted on August 17, 2014
Militarized streets have some bearing, of course. But they deflect attention from the real, unchanging …
Read MoreShades of Gray and Gold in Google Cultural Institute’s virtual story
by Rashmee
Posted on December 5, 2013
I thought about John Rogers Cox’s ‘Gray and Gold’ as I read Amit Sood’s interview…
Read MoreIra Glass anthology is a lesson in timelessness of a good story. Fact or fiction
by Rashmee
Posted on November 11, 2013
Some might say that six years have turned Ira Glass’s “new kings of non-fiction” into …
Read More#Shutdown: Frittatas, leftovers & other nifty aspects of nil-waste dining
by Rashmee
Posted on October 1, 2013
The #shutdown (and possible economic woes of many Americans) and the frittata on the right …
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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