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Farrukh Dhondy | Why royalty in Britain works: Few in favour of a republic…
In the last week, for three officially designated days, Britain celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
11 Jun 2022 12:13 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | The rewriting of history: How do toppling of statues help?
All statues commemorate some real, legendary or imagined virtue
04 Jun 2022 12:01 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo broke all the rules, but will stay, there’s no alternative…
Perhaps the Sue Gray report should be labelled 'fifty shades of shame'
28 May 2022 12:23 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | How will history remember BoJo: ‘Churchillian’ or for UK breakup?
BoJo fancies himself as a second Winston Churchill with constant posturing about defying Vladimir Putin as Churchill did with Adolf Hitler
13 May 2022 11:55 PM
Farrukh Dhondy | Did BoJo lie? I have a dream… of what may be coming next!
The breaking of the law by defying it and partying when it was forbidden will be retrospectively made a criminal offence
22 Apr 2022 11:55 PM
Farrukh Dhondy | Troubles piling up for Hedgie: ‘Non-dom’ wife, Partygate fine…
There exists a perfectly legal way of evading tax on one’s income from abroad by declaring that one is a 'non-dom' -- not domiciled
15 Apr 2022 11:16 PM
Farrukh Dhondy | Bid to ‘privatise’ UK’s Channel 4 puts free speech in some danger
Channel 4 avidly and rapidly established itself as the voice of critical, even impertinent, free speech
09 Apr 2022 7:28 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | On theocracy, secularism, and new truths about the past
Did Jinnah actually foresee the possibility of India’s pronounced secular democracy turning into a not-so-secular, intolerant nation with
01 Apr 2022 11:26 PM
Farrukh Dhondy | Bureaucracy in UK, EU & India: Putin’s war to BoJo’s rescue?
Putin’s criminal war has caused the largest refugee crisis Europe has known since the Second World War
26 Mar 2022 12:15 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Ordeal to enter India; and ways to avoid writers at literary fests
A very pleasant and talkative driver drove me through the several traffic jams and road-work hold-ups in six hours to the Pink City
21 Mar 2022 12:40 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | There’s a price for supporting democracy: Are we ready to pay?
Not buying Russian gas and oil may cause serious problems there. But then, supporting democracy, even nascent ones, always has a price
12 Mar 2022 1:24 AM
‘Racism warning’ for Shakespeare, Hemingway: Is it tip of the iceberg?
In my critical understanding there is woke, and there is what has to be labelled 'Jwoke'!
04 Mar 2022 11:55 PM
Farrukh Dhondy | Uncle Tom games: Can Gojo take on Czar’s brigade as Uglii, Hedgie play?
I am engaged in writing a book with the mildly derivate title 'Uncle Tom’s Cabinet'
26 Feb 2022 7:13 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | New UK crisis: Chicken tikka masala at risk as prices rise!
Of course, one should be concerned about the thousands of jobs that will be lost if a sizeable number of restaurants close
18 Feb 2022 11:40 PM
Farrukh Dhondy | The Kohinoor for Camilla? It’s high time it is back home…
It is possible that Prince Charles, being the fair-minded bloke he is, decides to persuade Camilla to repatriate the Kohinoor to India
12 Feb 2022 12:23 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | No. 10 parties: BoJo is trying desperately to fend off GoJo
BoJo survives but the nails are being steadily banged into the coffin
05 Feb 2022 12:11 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Of food ‘fatwiks’ & ‘jerky’ dishes: What’s ‘cultural appropriation’?
Some time ago, Jamie launched a ready-meal packet called Punchy Jerk Rice
28 Jan 2022 11:00 PM
Farrukh Dhondy | Truth and lies: A Sobhraj twist as BoJo faces more trouble…
The defection comes as BoJo’s participation in the decadent culture of the cabal of politicians and civil servants he runs from 10 Downing
22 Jan 2022 12:42 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Is the party over for BoJo at last? Will Starmers get ready for No. 10?
Was this congregation of people in the garden of 10 Downing Street a prayer meeting?
15 Jan 2022 12:29 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Of empires and their honours: A step backwards for UK diversity?
The signatories believe that instead of being knighted, Tony Blair should be tried as a war criminal
08 Jan 2022 2:12 AM
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