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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."
    Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Sir Vidia and his A team

    Having known him for several decades and talked to him about religion over these decades, I know that Vidia was a...

    25 Aug 2018 7:45 AM IST

    Cabbages & Kings: Burqa jokes become a pawn in the great game of PolitopolyOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Burqa jokes' become a pawn in the great game of...

    Boris has said that women who wear burqas look to him like letterboxes or bank robbers presumably those wearing...

    18 Aug 2018 7:30 AM IST

    A grave Sunday visitOpinion
    A grave Sunday visit

    Of course, the surnames on the Parsi graves are familiar.

    14 Aug 2018 1:02 AM IST

    Farewell Sir Vidia! Always politically incorrectOpinion
    Farewell Sir Vidia! Always politically incorrect

    Naipaul first book on India was, as he said to me, the product of disillusion.

    13 Aug 2018 12:43 AM IST

    British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn walks with supporters as he arrives for a press conference to launch his bid to retain the leadership of the party in London. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: UK Labour must tackle its anti-Semitism

    Several Muslim leaders objected and complained to Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, to take action.

    4 Aug 2018 7:45 AM IST

    Prime Minister Theresa May discovered this on December 13, 2017, when her government suffered a major defeat as rebels from her own Conservative Party allied with the Labour Party and other Opposition parties to push through an amendment to Brexit legislation, the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, in the House of Commons.Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Crime, religion can't be clubbed

    One of the more appropriate appointments made by British Prime Minister Theresa May (hem) was the promotion of Sajid...

    28 July 2018 7:48 AM IST

    The fact that Manchester Universitys student diversity officer and liberation and access officer initiate a move to erase If from their sight, will not result in Kiplings works disappearing from the history of literature. (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

    The students are absolutely within their rights to airbrush poems they don't want to see on the walls of what is their...

    22 July 2018 1:15 AM IST

    Students paint over Rudyard Kiplings poem If in protest at writers racism. (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

    Recent decoration of the building entailed inscribing Rudyard Kipling's poem, If, on one of the large round internal...

    21 July 2018 7:57 AM IST

    Students paint over Rudyard Kiplings poem If in protest at writers racism. (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

    Recent decoration of the building entailed inscribing Rudyard Kipling's poem, If, on one of the large round internal...

    21 July 2018 7:57 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Theresa MayOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Chequers deal - A dead duck for UK?

    Mr Davis has been in charge of the negotiations with the EU and knows the tenor of their concerns.

    14 July 2018 6:59 AM IST

    A person reading the Holy QuranOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Of false premises & false promises

    The Arabic word for virgin has been mistranslated.

    7 July 2018 12:42 AM IST

    Statistics reveal there are 90,000 widows and about 50,000 households headed by women in Sri Lanka after 26 years of violence, with no support and no resources. The study says they are vulnerable to sexual violence. (Representational image)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Protect women just like you protect cows!

    India, my brothers and sisters, is top of the list. It's the most dangerous country in the world for women.

    30 Jun 2018 7:55 AM IST

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