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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."
    Indian-origin UK Labour party MP Keith Vaz. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Private matters, public interest

    The leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said what Keith did there and then was a “private matter”.

    10 Sept 2016 1:04 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Coming - Indian cultural feast in UK

    PM Modiji's initiative to declare 2017 as the year of Indo-British culture is welcome.

    3 Sept 2016 12:49 AM IST

    Cabbages & Kings: Take a leaf from UK - Lottery to fund sports?Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Take a leaf from UK - Lottery to fund sports?

    The National Lottery has no say in how the money it generates and gives away is distributed or used to promote sport.

    27 Aug 2016 1:48 AM IST

    Anjem Choudary and his close associate Mizanur Rahman had pledged allegiance to the \caliphate\. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Britain's free speech dilemma

    Choudary has for several years been, at the least, a negative presence in the UK.

    19 Aug 2016 12:39 AM IST

    Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan, where even unproven allegations can stir mob violence and lynching. (Representational Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Blasphemy & the licence to kill

    Blasphemy is the verbal avatar of heresy.

    13 Aug 2016 12:27 AM IST

    Surendra Singh Negi (Photo: Twitter)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: The booti of contention

    The possibilities seem endless and we must await the results of Mr Negi's venture.

    6 Aug 2016 12:44 AM IST

    Cabbages & Kings: Jiyo Parsi - How not to be extinctOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Jiyo Parsi - How not to be extinct

    Now there is a well-funded organisation called Jiyo Parsi which has been given responsibility for refreshing the numbers...

    30 July 2016 12:36 AM IST

    Representational imageOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Dress undoeth the woman?

    Almost every day, on the world, national and local news, there's bound to be a report of some disaster or atrocity.

    23 July 2016 12:34 AM IST

    New British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to the media outside her official residence,10 Downing Street in London. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Post-Brexit ironies in Theresa's Britain

    The energy supplied by trans-European companies will inevitably become prohibitively more expensive.

    16 July 2016 12:34 AM IST

    Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: In 2003, was Blair doing his duty?

    No one has yet mentioned under which statute Blair can be accused of criminal activity.

    9 July 2016 12:58 AM IST

    Lawyers from Leigh Day solicitors argued that Brexit would mean the claimants were no longer EU citizens and therefore no longer afforded the rights of free movement which flow from EU citizenship. (Photo: AFP/Representational Image)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Brexit hangover - Overt racism

    Seventeen million voted Leave and 16 million voted Remain .

    2 July 2016 1:00 AM IST

    Police officers direct family members away from a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Cultural mix isn't a problem

    America is by historical definition a country of immigrants, their hopes and inevitably their prejudices.

    18 Jun 2016 1:32 AM IST

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