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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: A cooked-up story that was trueOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: A cooked-up story that was true

    The person “handling” Ms Keeler's trade was Stephen Ward not exactly a pimp but an enabler for the great and the...

    10 Dec 2016 1:13 AM IST

    Journalist Dilip Padgaonkar (Photo: video grab)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Flashback - Journo tales from Poona

    He never lost the ideals of liberty, equality, fraternity and the Indian secular ideal.

    3 Dec 2016 1:02 AM IST

    US President-elect Donald Trump (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Walls of disharmony

    Globalisation should have meant exchange of labour.

    26 Nov 2016 12:35 AM IST

    US President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Trump's list' to stop terrorism

    It is a medically-sanctioned truth that more people die of choking on their food in the US.

    19 Nov 2016 12:39 AM IST

    US President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: America's eccentric elephant in the room

    Mr Trump's pronouncements seemed to make it permissible to be verbally racist, misogynist, homophobic and xenophobic.

    12 Nov 2016 12:37 AM IST

    At a hearing at Londons City Hall on Thursday, he said that hate crime was showing signs of decreasing after a sharp rise in June and July, but it had still not returned to pre-referendum levels.Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Britain and the racial mix

    The concentration has also allowed these communities to exercise democratic power through the force of numbers.

    5 Nov 2016 12:51 AM IST

    Cabbages & Kings: How UCC can transform IndiaOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: How UCC can transform India

    All the codes of law of the main religious groups of India discriminate in one way or the other against women.

    29 Oct 2016 12:41 AM IST

    Bob Dylan (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Dylan's Nobel: A populist sellout?

    Dylan's career began with the appeal of protest the voice of one generation challenging another.

    22 Oct 2016 2:06 AM IST

    UK Labour part leader Jeremy Corbyn. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    In UK, Labour can ignore anti-Semitism at its own peril

    Shami Chakrabarti produced a report which many Jewish MPs labelled a whitewash and an evasive, mealy-mouthed report.

    15 Oct 2016 1:09 AM IST

    Representational imageOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Gay marriages - Dilli door ast

    Several Hindu priests turned down the request to marry a gay couple.

    8 Oct 2016 12:58 AM IST

    Representational imageOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: What we can eat - The prejudices

    In today's world the injunctions against devouring a particular species go beyond religion.

    24 Sept 2016 12:58 AM IST

    Cabbages & Kings: Why not send all jihadis to Syria?Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Why not send all jihadis to Syria?

    Anjem himself, with his unerring sense of humour, mischief and loyalty to his cause, renamed it “jihad-seekers...

    17 Sept 2016 12:40 AM IST

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