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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."
    Cabbages & Kings: Why are India’s airports so strict?Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Why are India’s airports so strict?

    The immigration officer performs some mysterious manoeuvres with one’s passport on the counter beneath eye-level.

    13 April 2019 7:43 AM IST

    Oil has empowered regimes led by fanatics across the Islamic worldOpinion
    Oil has empowered regimes led by fanatics across the Islamic world

    The madrasas and mosques they finance distort the message of Islam and pervert the role of that religion and its...

    6 April 2019 2:28 AM IST

    Politics is creating antagonism to distort cultureOpinion
    Politics is creating antagonism to distort culture

    For those who are sceptical of the metaphor of a country having a “soul”, I can refer to it as a struggle for the...

    30 March 2019 2:50 AM IST

    Cabbages & Kings: Theresa falls into Blunderland, as Mad Hatters of Brussels make hayOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Theresa falls into Blunderland, as Mad Hatters of...

    Theresa May as a Prime Minister of Britain is no better than Alice in Wonderland.

    23 March 2019 7:45 AM IST

    Cabbages & Kings: Brexit vote has left the UK in utter confusionOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Brexit vote has left the UK in utter confusion

    Theresa May put her withdrawal deal from the European Union to a vote for the second time and last Tuesday, lost...

    16 March 2019 7:57 AM IST

    The anti-racist sensitivity on the issue had to be overruled in the face of facts and Londons Asian mayor, Sadiq Khan, endorsed the polices approach to stop and search . (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    What is behind the new UK trend of teens being stabbed to death?

    he British authorities have long pondered the causes and preventive measures to tackle this sort of knife crime.

    9 March 2019 1:19 AM IST

    The hijab remark attracted no accusations of Islamophobia from anyone.Opinion
    Amid the UK furore over anti-Semitism, even I was (wrongly) asked to...

    My complainant set out the history of the Jewish Orthodox practice of wearing wigs.

    2 March 2019 2:15 AM IST

    As the Brexit debate, which has breached British sense and sensibilities, not to mention pride and prejudices, progresses, the unicorns multiply.Opinion
    Brexit's unicorns' and the idiocies, fantasies, myths they spawn

    The British satirical press has played the entertaining game of counting unicorns or mentions of them in Parliament.

    16 Feb 2019 2:14 AM IST

    John Lenon and Yoko Ono (Photo: AP)Opinion
    When Yoko Ono, now 85, sought advice for us' to heal and shine'

    Yoko may mean that we should all work towards acquiring halos like angels. We shouldn't steal other people's husbands.

    9 Feb 2019 7:53 AM IST

    This part of the East End, a stones throw from the City , the financial capital of Britain, had been down-at-heel for centuries. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    A Banglatown' in London?

    The tourists flood in with chic bars, restaurants and shops reflecting the new prosperity.

    2 Feb 2019 2:38 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Theresa MayOpinion
    What can gender equality mean in the world of Spice Girls?

    The phrase gender equality in today's world means very many different things.

    26 Jan 2019 7:47 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Theresa May (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: A Brexit tragedy is unfolding

    On Tuesday last week Prime Minister May put the terms she had negotiated with the European Union to the House of...

    19 Jan 2019 7:40 AM IST

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