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Recently, the local government of the city of Grantham in Lincolnshire, UK, spent Â£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, thereâ€™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 â€˜War on the Westâ€™? 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: â€˜Churchillianâ€™ 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 Russiaâ€™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