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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."
    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

    The inquest into Amess death is yet to take place, but there is no doubt that Alis motive was Islamist terror choosing a random MP as a victim for reasons that his warped faith dictated. Representational Image. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Convictions that are faith-based hard to fathom for a...

    Perhaps that's a paradoxical assertion as understanding and faith are by definition opposed

    31 Oct 2021 2:55 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Of property and theft' in today's Britain: The rise...

    I have, in my short and happy life, been a guest at the London luxury flats, houses and the country estates of Indians...

    23 Oct 2021 1:20 AM IST

    The shortages, Prime Minister BoJo has already proclaimed, will force industry and haulage companies to pay higher wages which will then turn the UK into a contemporary superpower. Representational Image. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Brexit's effects hit UK harder: Gig' workers bear the...

    The ships' departure will lead to the imports not reaching industries and consumer goods not reaching the shelves of...

    18 Oct 2021 1:09 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Why I'm happy to be a snob amid linguistic...

    Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians

    9 Oct 2021 12:29 AM IST

    The shortage of fuel to vehicles is not the only acute crisis that Britain is suffering. (AFP Photo)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | I told you so UK fuel crisis shows fears on Brexit...

    No, gentle reader, the supply of fuel had not been curtailed by the oil-fields of the world being flooded by...

    2 Oct 2021 1:45 AM IST

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