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Farrukh Dhondy
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In his words: "I am just a professional writer, which means I don't do blogs and try and get money for whatever I write."
    Front pages of British national newspapers, each leading with a front page story of the resignation of Boris Johnson as leader of Britains Conservative Party, are arranged for a photograph in Downing Street, the official residence of Britains Prime Minister, in central London on July 8, 2022. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Hedgie, Javid were boulders that broke the camel’s...

    “Why is virtue always compared To the straight and narrow path? Why do they call it “sleeping with” ...

    8 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

    Britains Home Secretary Priti Patel. (Photo:AP file)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Will BoJo and his chamchi Clueless get me deported...

    The irony, gentle readers, is devastating and one would cry if one didn’t laugh

    1 July 2022 11:39 PM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Should we stop reading writers whose views are truly...

    Religious and regional rivalries, breeding even genocidal prejudice, have bedevilled history

    25 Jun 2022 12:40 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Trouble mounts for BoJo all over UK: Will Rwanda come...

    Today the British government claims that Rwanda is the safest, most progressive, internationally engaged country in...

    17 Jun 2022 11:03 PM IST

    Queen Elizabeth II (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Why royalty in Britain works: Few in favour of a...

    In the last week, for three officially designated days, Britain celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

    11 Jun 2022 12:14 AM IST

    Recently, the local government of the city of Grantham in Lincolnshire, UK, spent £300,000 on a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britains first woman Prime Minister. (Twitter)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | The rewriting of history: How do toppling of statues...

    All statues commemorate some real, legendary or imagined virtue

    4 Jun 2022 12:02 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo broke all the rules, but will stay, there’s no...

    Perhaps the Sue Gray report should be labelled -'fifty shades of shame-'

    28 May 2022 12:24 AM IST

    Local civilians walk past a tank destroyed during heavy fighting in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)Opinion
    Which is the real ‘War on the West’? By Putin & Trump, or the...

    Indian historians have been rewriting and telling the truth about colonial history for at least a century

    21 May 2022 12:21 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | How will history remember BoJo: ‘Churchillian’ or...

    BoJo fancies himself as a second Winston Churchill with constant posturing about defying Vladimir Putin as Churchill did...

    13 May 2022 11:55 PM IST

    A good Muslim friend tells me that Id is the occasion when the faithful ask God to recognise their sacrifice through fasting all through the days of Ramzan, not praying for material gifts, but for peace on earth and goodwill to humanity. (Representational Image/ DC)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Prayers, zakat for Ukrainians & all oppressed to show...

    Not all the Ehl-e-kitabists are united in condemning the slaughter and Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine

    7 May 2022 12:48 AM IST

    President Barack Obamas memoir on a window display at the Greenlight Bookstore in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on November 17, 2020 in New York City. (AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | On returning to bookshops; challenges on social media

    Will the cautionary lifting of Covid-19 restrictions bring book buyers back to the bookshops to savour the browsing...

    29 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

    A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologizing to MPs for the for the \partygate\ fine and making statement to MPs on the situation in Ukraine following its invasion by Russia during the first session after the on Easter Recess, at the House of Commons, in London, on April 19, 2022. (AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Did BoJo lie? I have a dream… of what may be coming...

    The breaking of the law by defying it and partying when it was forbidden will be retrospectively made a criminal offence

    22 April 2022 11:57 PM IST

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