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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."
    England beat Denmark in the semi-finals of the European Football Cup and will now play Italy in the final on Sunday. (Representational Image: AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Adieu fair play: Sportsmanship under threat in...

    For some viewers in that room, the game had turned into a metaphorical political war

    17 July 2021 12:49 AM IST

    England beat Denmark in the semi-finals of the European Football Cup and will now play Italy in the final on Sunday. (Representational Image: AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | In today's world, the signalling' of virtue' could...

    It's difficult to see what the footballers who 'take the knee' can do to combat racism outside the football stadium

    10 July 2021 12:01 AM IST

    News.Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Why democracy often turns ugly: Prejudice & hate as...

    The byelection for a Member of Parliament in the Yorkshire constituency of Batley was a paradigm of this ugliness

    3 July 2021 12:20 AM IST

    News.Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Of flat earth' & science denial: New orthodoxy of...

    The story goes that, true to his beliefs, as he left the court, he muttered to himself, or perhaps to his God if he...

    26 Jun 2021 12:13 AM IST

    Salmans essay is not unsympathetic to the hijras and charts the structure of their social existence and pleads for some attention to the risks they face through HIV and AIDS. (Photo: Amazon)Books
    Book Review | Fantasy beats autofiction, but magic realism' trounced...

    Salman contends that publishing today favours the revealing, racially, sexually and culturally situated autobiography

    20 Jun 2021 12:10 AM IST

    Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (AFP Photo)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo, Dombo & Carrie: The weird' trio at 10 Downing...

    One assumed at the time that Dombo was part of all these plans and failures as he was BoJo's right-hand man

    19 Jun 2021 7:16 AM IST

    NewsOpinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | All the world's a stage: Gender, race, diversity &...

    Through the last few decades, no choric group of white singers in the West would blacken their faces to represent black...

    12 Jun 2021 12:17 AM IST

    The Windsor Castle funeral, with the restrictions on gatherings imposed by the Covid lockdown, prevented any mass congregation of citizens, but still they came in their hundreds to profess their love for a man they had never met. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | BBC's Di interview, Harry & Meghan Why do the Brits...

    Prime Ministers are not permanent and that even in those countries the populace doesn't love them like the tribal Brits...

    5 Jun 2021 2:13 AM IST

    BoJo was sanctioned for columns he wrote in the Daily Telegraph likening Muslim ladies wearing burqas to letter boxes with round tops and slits below and then to Balaclavaed bank robbers. (Jessica TAYLOR / various sources / AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Does UK have institutional racism'? The debate still...

    In all the ups and downs and instances of that episode, it was never pointed out that 13 current Labour MPs are Muslims

    29 May 2021 1:50 AM IST

    Shoppers in central Manchester, England, as coronavirus restrictions are eased in England. Thanks to an efficient vaccine roll out program and high uptake rates, Britain is finally saying goodbye to months of tough lockdown restrictions. (AP/Jon Super, File)Opinion
    In BoJo's UK, it's okay to hug now. But if cases spurt, fresh ban...

    One doesn't have to hug every person one passes in the street, but it now permits grandparents to embrace their...

    22 May 2021 1:45 AM IST

    Britains opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn waves to supporters at a launch event for the Labour partys general election campaign in London, Britain. Photograph:(Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Why is Labour, once a force in British politics, on...

    Subsequent Labour governments did very little to make the economic revival of these towns and cities their priority

    15 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Ms Symonds is accused, apart from crony appointments of interventions in policy areas that affect the country, decisions that very many Conservatives and people in government are convinced that BoJo would not have taken had it not been for her prevalent influence. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Is Carrie, UK's First Girlfriend, the real driver of...

    It is a fact that she has packed the staff and advisory phalanx of the PM's office with her friends and people she...

    8 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

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