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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.
    Rebekah Vardy (L) and Coleen Rooney. (AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | When libel WAGs a friendship; will Harry’s memoir...

    As the women’s football team prepares for an almost certain victory (I am writing before the Lionesses hit the...

    31 July 2022 11:51 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 | In race to elect next UK PM, are women meant to steal...

    Some rumours are floating around that a few of these candidates were selected in order to ensure that Liz Truss does not...

    17 July 2022 11:36 PM IST

    Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema celebrates after scoring a goal during the UEFA Womens Euro 2017 football tournament final match between Netherlands and Denmark at Fc Twente Stadium in Enschede. (AFP FIle Image)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Pubs, Wimbledon site of reunions; women’s footie is...

    Sports are great for bonding and especially cricket where India is also in the fray

    3 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

    Britains Home Secretary Priti Patel. (Photo:AP file)Opinion
    Big hats are all the rage after Jubilee; Charles in shock at Priti’s...

    Home secretary Priti Patel has shocked everyone by executing a bold scheme to transport all illegal immigrants to Rwanda

    19 Jun 2022 11:13 PM IST

    There was the Platinum Party at Buckingham Palace with singers like Diana Ross, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Duran Duran and composers such as Andrew Llyod Weber which drew at least 22,000 people and provided a foot tapping history of pop music past and present. (Reuters)Opinion
    Queen’s Platinum Jubilee takes on a Bollywood touch before it winds...

    Indians were in full flow at the 6,000 street parties all over the country

    6 Jun 2022 12:04 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Sinn Fein win puts spotlight on treaty; balcony ‘half-full’ on...

    This will be a test for the Treaty of Northern Ireland as Sinn Fein would like to reunite both parts which the Unionists...

    23 May 2022 12:38 AM IST

    Boris Johnson not only failed to be consistent protecting the wrongdoer one day and abandoning him the next, he then donned ashes and sackcloth and became an enthusiast for banning second jobs for MPs. (AP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Clubbing is back, so is beachwear; women’s soccer...

    But even so, we are still in some ways under the influence of the pandemic

    25 April 2022 12:59 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | XR, traffic jams back on streets; BoJo in Kiev is butt...

    Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists are back on the streets, reminding us that the world is not a safe haven in any way

    11 April 2022 12:12 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    ‘Fake history’, but ‘slip’ in Bridgerton may land on cancel...

    And in other bad news: there is severe inflation. Households face energy bills four times what they were last year

    27 March 2022 11:37 PM IST

    Britains Queen Elizabeth smiles after awarding Captain Sir Thomas Moore his knighthood during a ceremony at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England. The former British colony of Barbados, once known as \Little England,\ announced Tuesday, Sept. 15, that it plans to replace the monarch with its own head of state in time for next years 55th independence anniversary. (AP)Opinion
    Her Majesty still not well enough; Ukraine, oil bills trouble one &...

    She is 95 and has just completed 70 years on the throne which is a record for Great Britain

    14 March 2022 7:23 AM IST

    For many who are familiar with scrabble, or have done crosswords, this was a strange fixation but the charm of it was that it is online and so many can play and compete with each other. (DC)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | War of Wordles has UK in grip; 20m flowers to float...

    In a bid to make Wordle popular in their backyard they have made the word puzzle much more puzzling

    28 Feb 2022 2:46 AM IST

    If the black cab driver had found it, said Meghnad confidently, he will definitely return it. (Representational Image/ AP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Cabbie returns Meghnad ‘ideas’; sexism finally...

    Because people leave things so frequently in London black cabs, the methodology is very smoothly implemented

    14 Feb 2022 1:17 AM IST

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