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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."
    BoJo was sanctioned for columns he wrote in the Daily Telegraph likening Muslim ladies wearing burqas to letter boxes with round tops and slits below and then to Balaclavaed bank robbers. (Jessica TAYLOR / various sources / AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Truth and lies: A Sobhraj twist as BoJo faces more...

    The defection comes as BoJo’s participation in the decadent culture of the cabal of politicians and civil servants he...

    22 Jan 2022 12:41 AM IST

    UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday apologised for attending a lockdown-breaching party held in his Downing Street garden. (AFP Photo)Opinion
    Is the party over for BoJo at last? Will Starmers get ready for No....

    Was this congregation of people in the garden of 10 Downing Street a prayer meeting?

    15 Jan 2022 12:21 AM IST

    Tony Blair who was made a knight, this year. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Of empires and their honours: A step backwards for UK...

    The signatories believe that instead of being knighted, Tony Blair should be tried as a war criminal

    8 Jan 2022 2:12 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Ringing in 2022 amidst the spectre of Covid, Omicron

    My Christmases and New Years are pleasantly haunted by the ghosts of Christmases and New Years past

    1 Jan 2022 12:23 AM IST

    Globalisation should mean the timely export of anti-Covid vaccines to countries and could even mean the suspension of patents for these and other medicines from which multinational Western firms make billions of dollars. (AFP file photo)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | It’s exploitation, not compassion: Globalisation II...

    Global compassion is far behind the global instinct to exploit. Will it ever catch up? Inshallah!

    25 Dec 2021 2:27 AM IST

    A health worker prepares to inoculates a man with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    ‘Anti-vaxxers’ a threat to others; live in denial of science,...

    There are some religious maniacs who believe that muttering some phrase or charm will save them from Covid-19

    18 Dec 2021 12:23 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | The power of imagination: Science, myths must...

    Epics, myths, narratives enrich the imagination and a culture. Science merely and heroically endeavours to understand...

    10 Dec 2021 11:45 PM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Style matters: Of dress codes and asserting...

    This, gentle reader, is an idle musing on a detail of our great, contemporary, egalitarian world

    3 Dec 2021 11:47 PM IST

    More seriously, Brexit has caused a shortage of health service staff from doctors, to nurses, auxiliaries and ambulance drivers. (Representational Image. AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Turning human' migrants into a political weapon: UK...

    Some commentators and Twitterers insist that they be called 'humans, not migrants'

    27 Nov 2021 2:55 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Yorkshire racism row resolution shows Britain has...

    I believe that British racism has changed in its manifestations and in the reaction it provokes from the establishment

    20 Nov 2021 7:30 AM IST

    British lawmaker Owen Paterson. (AP file photo)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | It's not just the Owen scandal Spate of sleaze dogs...

    Owen, has resigned his seat in Britain's House of Commons, withdrawing from the heart of a scandal that is overtaking...

    13 Nov 2021 12:15 AM IST

    A girl holds a draw reading Save Our World as demonstrators take part in the Fridays for Future Scotland march, during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Is there hope for planet, or will prophets of doom...

    As with Covid, humanity is in this together

    6 Nov 2021 2:42 AM IST

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