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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."
    Amazon has updated the Alexa app on iOS so that users can access the voice assistant right from their home screens via a new widget. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Creepy feelings as tech advances: Will Alexa listen in & tell the CIA?

    The brain is a muscle which harbours memories and thoughts

    7 Aug 2021 10:30 AM IST

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    Heartless in UK: Do all victims of trafficking pose a security threat?

    The Modern Slavery Act, in line with international legal agreements, extends the State’s protection to all victims of...

    31 July 2021 6:52 AM IST

    William Shakespeare (Photo: AP)Opinion
    In UK, linguistic ‘revolutionaries’ try to ‘ban’ those with...

    What the boy is asking himself is should he endure these S and As or should he fight against such opposition or...

    24 July 2021 1:02 AM IST

    England beat Denmark in the semi-finals of the European Football Cup and will now play Italy in the final on Sunday. (Representational Image: AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Adieu fair play: Sportsmanship under threat in...

    For some viewers in that room, the game had turned into a metaphorical political war

    17 July 2021 12:14 AM IST

    England beat Denmark in the semi-finals of the European Football Cup and will now play Italy in the final on Sunday. (Representational Image: AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | In today’s world, the ‘signalling’ of...

    It’s difficult to see what the footballers who -'take the knee-' can do to combat racism outside the football stadium

    10 July 2021 12:00 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Why democracy often turns ugly: Prejudice & hate as...

    The byelection for a Member of Parliament in the Yorkshire constituency of Batley was a paradigm of this ugliness

    3 July 2021 12:20 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Of ‘flat earth’ & science denial: New orthodoxy...

    The story goes that, true to his beliefs, as he left the court, he muttered to himself, or perhaps to his God if he...

    26 Jun 2021 12:04 AM IST

    Salmans essay is not unsympathetic to the hijras and charts the structure of their social existence and pleads for some attention to the risks they face through HIV and AIDS. (Photo: Amazon)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Fantasy beats autofiction, but magic realism' trounced...

    Salman contends that publishing today favours the revealing, racially, sexually and culturally situated autobiography

    20 Jun 2021 1:50 AM IST

    Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (AFP Photo)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo, Dombo & Carrie: The weird' trio at 10 Downing...

    One assumed at the time that Dombo was part of all these plans and failures as he was BoJo's right-hand man

    19 Jun 2021 12:40 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | All the world's a stage: Gender, race, diversity &...

    Through the last few decades, no choric group of white singers in the West would blacken their faces to represent black...

    12 Jun 2021 12:17 AM IST

    The Windsor Castle funeral, with the restrictions on gatherings imposed by the Covid lockdown, prevented any mass congregation of citizens, but still they came in their hundreds to profess their love for a man they had never met. (AP)Opinion
    BBC's Di interview, Harry & Meghan Why do the Brits love' their Queen?

    Prime Ministers are not permanent and that even in those countries the populace doesn't love them like the tribal Brits...

    5 Jun 2021 2:13 AM IST

    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 | Does UK have institutional racism'? The debate still...

    In all the ups and downs and instances of that episode, it was never pointed out that 13 current Labour MPs are Muslims

    29 May 2021 1:50 AM IST

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