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Kishwar Desai, is the chair of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, which is setting up the Partition Museum at Town Hall, Amritsar.
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Whiff of duplicity! Why did BBC sit on Gujarat...

    The BBC story with a narrative that was obviously antagonistic towards the Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, is...

    23 Jan 2023 12:30 AM IST

    Prince Harry and Meghan (Image: Netflix)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Will the -'Spare-' (Prince Harry) end up richer than...

    Happy 2023. Brrr. It is cold here and snow is threatened this coming week. Of course, while there may have been a...

    9 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

    With the new year around the corner party goers are scouting for suburbs. (PTI Photo/Representational)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | After a Christmas of misery, looking to New Year with...

    After a rather gloomy Christmas where strikes where the dominating theme, we are now reeling into a New Year where...

    26 Dec 2022 12:51 AM IST

    Diana and Meghan did the democratic world a favour in boldly exposing the underbelly of the royal family, which by itself is an anachronism in the modern age. (SAEED KHAN / AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Furore erupts as Harry & Meghan reveal the ‘truth’...

    Well, it’s that couple again! In India we are used to doleful saas-bahu serials so this is nothing new. We all...

    12 Dec 2022 1:22 AM IST

    Visitors stop to take a photograph with a giant Christmas tree outside Battersea Power Station in south London on November 27, 2022. (Photo by Justin TALLIS / AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Christmas lights across London as UK heads for winter...

    The streets of London are decked with Christmas buntings, spectacular lights and bunches of berries and holly as music...

    28 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

    British Prime Minister-elect Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata at the Bhaktivedanta Manor temple on August 18 ahead of Sri Krishna Janmashtami (Image: Twitter/@RishiSunak)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | A more desi Diwali in Britain; storm over latest...

    Yes, so while we revel in Diwali parties (which are now getting on to the calendar), I am making a pledge to bring more...

    14 Nov 2022 12:15 AM IST

    British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (Photo- AP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Excitement over Rishi at No. 10 as UK waits for his...

    It has been a complete reversal of fortune for Rishi who had so recently lost the race to Ms Truss

    30 Oct 2022 9:29 PM IST

    Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Can Tories run Britain or should Liz start a drive by...

    Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, is proving that sometimes it is best to be pragmatic and ditch election promises

    16 Oct 2022 9:38 PM IST

    Britains Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britains Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Truss-Kwarteng face opprobrium; will rail strike mar...

    It is still summer and London is still warm. But it feels like the seventies when London and the country were gripped in...

    3 Oct 2022 1:24 AM IST

    Members of the public walk past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, inside Westminster Hall, at the Palace of Westminster, in London on early September 17, 2022, where it Lies in State on a Catafalque (James Manning / POOL / AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | London queues up for a cause as media watches for...

    Perhaps, never again in the history of mankind will so many gather to bid farewell to just one person. At least not in...

    19 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Liz Truss gets set for No. 10? Life is ‘smaller’...

    Today is D-Day. Hurrah! For many of us watching the endless hustings and debates from the sidelines — (as we are...

    5 Sept 2022 1:56 AM IST

    Rishi Sunak & Liz TrussOpinion
    Only William-Kate smelling like roses; The Rishi and Liz Show...

    The brutal attack on Salman Rushdie on Friday was unexpected but perhaps not surprising. Terrorists have long memories...

    15 Aug 2022 12:13 AM IST

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