Deja vu? US embassy Kabul evacuation
by Rashmee
Posted on August 13, 2021
Unsurprisingly, the US is planning to evacuate its diplomats from its embassy in Kabul. So …
Read MoreTom Friedman is writing about India again. Oh dear
by Rashmee
Posted on November 30, 2017
What I’m about to say has nothing to do with my being Indian. It does …
Read MoreHavana high for US: Why countries need poets to say what they can’t – or won’t
by Rashmee
Posted on August 15, 2015
Formulaic or not, there’s always something enormously moving when countries wheel out poets to say …
Read MoreCreole diplomacy: ‘We glad yu cum visit. Nuff respect and walk good’
by Rashmee
Posted on March 20, 2015
“Korea and Jamaica a frien from long long time,” says the South Korean charge to …
Read MoreAs he bows out, William Burns doesn’t address lessons of Herat
by Rashmee
Posted on October 26, 2014
In his wise reflections on 33 years in the diplomacy business, US Deputy Secretary of …
Read MoreUS in Herat: Honeyed words can’t mask Afghanistan’s hard reality
by Rashmee
Posted on October 25, 2014
By now the US Consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, will have moved from its plush, five-star …
Read MoreIn Kabul, the US is building a small city sans features of an urban paradise
by Rashmee
Posted on July 19, 2014
Next month, the US State Department is scheduled to report on needs unmet by the …
Read MoreThe Pomegranate Peace: Afghanistan’s anar as a weapon of dissent
by Rashmee
Posted on April 26, 2014
In the second chapter of ‘The Pomegranate Peace’, a female American diplomat starts …
Read MoreThe Pomegranate Peace: Diary of a female US diplomat who wasn’t
by Rashmee
Posted on April 25, 2014
In keeping with the predominantly Afghan theme of the month, here’s the first chapter …
Read MoreAbundance of caution = Many headless chickens?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 5, 2013
When does an abundance of caution become pusillanimity? When 19 US missions are closed till …
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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