UN’s impotence on Ukraine underlines the need for real decolonisation – of the international architecture
by Rashmee
Posted on November 23, 2022
The Pope’s description of Ukrainians as suffering from the “martyrdom of aggression” has come into …
Read MoreWhy the United Nations has been reduced to a technical support role
by Rashmee
Posted on September 26, 2022
There’s lots to say about the excellent interview that Quartz did with former UN deputy …
Read MoreThe G7 has returned to being a gentlemen’s club
by Rashmee
Posted on June 26, 2022
Today, leaders of some of the world’s biggest economies get together in the Bavarian Alps. …
Read MoreWhen it comes to hurling insults, Moscow is not a patch on Pyongyang
by Rashmee
Posted on June 18, 2022
When it comes to insults, the Russians could do worse than take classes from the …
Read MoreUkraine: Norman Foster, ‘colonisation’ and rebuilding Kharkiv
by Rashmee
Posted on June 8, 2022
In my recent openDemocracy piece on decolonising the bookshelf, I paraphrased Jane Austen’s famous …
Read MoreCountries, nations and states. Where does Palestine fit in?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 22, 2022
Going by American anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s definition, Ukraine is a nation, a state, a country, …
Read MoreThree recent conversations about Putin and ‘the end times’
by Rashmee
Posted on March 8, 2022
It’s been a few hours since I properly realised just how frightened people are that …
Read MoreHuman beings think and feel, which is as it should be
by Rashmee
Posted on March 7, 2022
Some years ago, Nigel Nicholson, a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School, …
Read MoreThe world is too much with us. How not to deal with it
by Rashmee
Posted on March 6, 2022
The Unabomber way of dealing (or rather not dealing) with the world never helped anyone. …
Read MoreCan you become a refugee…from the world?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 5, 2022
The unrelenting horror of current events – with a big country inflicting enormous suffering on …
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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