#IndianWomen: Life and love like Hindi film, #IshkqInParis

by Rashmee

Posted on May 26, 2013


It’s been ages since I saw a film (Lincoln was the last and that was …

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#IndianWomen – and others. Above the snow line?

by Rashmee

Posted on May 18, 2013


There are two ways to respond to the media fuss over Saudi woman, Raha Muharraq’s …

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Angelina Jolie’s decision is no prescription for Ms Anita American Ordinary

by Rashmee

Posted on May 14, 2013


Don’t want to be curmudgeonly but it’s probably easier for Angelina Jolie to have an …

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Like many strong women, Thatcher would rather have an argument than dinner

by Rashmee

Posted on April 17, 2013


Lest we forget (as they say), Margaret Thatcher was buried at St. Paul’s Cathedral today …

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What Justin Bieber thinks of Anne Frank (& 10 historical figures)

by Rashmee

Posted on April 15, 2013


Not being 13, I have never consciously listened to a Justin Bieber song. However, it …

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Hugo Chavez, a ladies man, but not only in the way you think

by Rashmee

Posted on April 14, 2013


If you don’t vote Maduro, you don’t love your mother. Fascinating story in the Christian …

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Mrs Thatcher: Britain’s tough-love sweetheart

by Rashmee

Posted on April 8, 2013


The point about Margaret Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter, free-marketeer and deeply divisive ideologue, was that …

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So Obama shouldn’t have noticed Kamala Harris is a woman?

by Rashmee

Posted on April 5, 2013


It’s hard to get self-righteous about President Obama’s supposedly sexist comment about his old friend …

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Gender she-saw: The storm in the stewpot

by Rashmee

Posted on April 2, 2013


Everyone is getting worked up about The New York Times’s obit on the rocket scientist, …

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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