2022 was cruel but there are reasons to be cheerful about 2023. Happy new year

by Rashmee

Posted on January 1, 2023


As the old year died, it was hard to shed too many tears for it.…

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Could the Chinese protests be telling an unregarded story of national solidarity?

by Rashmee

Posted on November 29, 2022


Much of the western media’s current coverage of China has been focussed on the fact …

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Democracy doesn’t have to be Western-style, nor the development template

by Rashmee

Posted on September 19, 2020


Veteran foreign policywallah Kishore Mahbubani once wrote a piece for The New York Times titled …

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What to make of Mike Pompeo’s ‘crusade’ against China

by Rashmee

Posted on August 16, 2020


Jeffrey Sachs’ contextualisation of America’s “crusade” against China is worth reading, what with Mike Pompeo, …

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India’s internet gag in Kashmir has completed 105 days

by Rashmee

Posted on November 18, 2019


India’s internet gag completed 105 days on Sunday, November 17. The Wire’s Mudasir Ahmed reported…

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While the Trump administration swaggers, the world gets down to business

by Rashmee

Posted on April 30, 2019 / The National


The US is no longer a global hegemon, both by choice and by circumstance. Solid …

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Don’t let the hype fool you, dictators are not becoming more democratic?

by Rashmee

Posted on February 13, 2015


Robert D Kaplan and Dafna H Rand of the Center for a New American Security …

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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