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Kishwar Desai

Partying Pippa & the ‘stunned’ paparazzi

If every generation of the Royal family needs one wild card to liven it up, then the present lot has found its saviour in Pippa Middleton.

Can good looks wreck your life?

Recently in the UK a slightly delusional article by journalist Samantha Brick lamenting that her “pretty face” has made women desperately envious,

Britain through the kaleidoscope

When Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her diamond jubilee with British parliamentarians this week, it was time again for tiaras and tradition

Women and their world

What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than to announce the all-women longlist for the Orange Prize

Tetchy Brits and their tantrums

Is it the unseasonably warm weather — Britain is as hot as Morocco — which has made everyone so tetchy?

Diamonds and rust

Temperatures may have dropped dramatically, but London is warming up for a year of celebrations, as only the British know how.

Must India downplay its secular credentials?

As part of a secular nation, one must be able to respect and appreciate religions other than one’s own without prejudice or dismay.

From designer riots to other hate crimes

Has racism raised its ugly head in the UK once again?

An unruly year of people power

Only a day left and it is time to pack away an unruly year which was almost rushed off its feet by events — most of which were driven by the aam aadmi

This Xmas embrace British frugality

M.F. Husain and Dev Anand both died in London this year, in very different circumstances.

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