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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."

As the saying goes, Britannia may have ruled the waves and now it has disastrously decided to waive the rules (Representational Image: AFP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | At last, Britain is free of EU Now see who'll make it...

The EU was the insurance and safeguard against the global dominance of the American and Chinese hegemonies

2 Jan 2021 12:15 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Of creativity in a plague year gadget fixing & dosa...

I have myself been exploring the idea that enforced idleness may be the chief begetter of creative genius

26 Dec 2020 12:54 PM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Researching Wikipedia on the origins of toxic words

And in my idle researches I find that there are places where Wikipedia doesn't fear to tread

19 Dec 2020 12:30 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Why we need to tolerate' all those who have contrary...

If language is the avatar of thought, then ideas, propositions and proofs are the recipes in the avatar's cookbook

12 Dec 2020 8:38 AM IST

Screengrab from A Suitable Boy. (Twitter)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Row over a kiss: It's puritanism, not a breach of...

There is no puritan tradition in Hinduism which would forbid the depiction of two lovers kissing outside a KFC shop or a...

28 Nov 2020 5:11 AM IST

An illustration picture taken on November 19, 2020, shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Vaccines on the way amid talk of conspiracies, Bill...

When the vaccine was announced, instead lining up for a shot, I read all manner of lunatic anti-vaccine propaganda

21 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Open letter to PM Modi: Let Bharat Mata set an...

"Narendraji, there is one country that can offer examples of an attitude, a policy towards the future and set ideals for...

13 Nov 2020 10:05 PM IST

President Donald Trump supporter Steve Roberts plants campaign signs near the Seminole Heights Public Library polling precinct on November 3, 2020 in Tampa, United States. After a record-breaking early voting turnout, Americans head to the polls on the last day to cast their vote for incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. (AFP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | A divided America is battling for its 'soul'

Gentle reader, democracy requires you to choose your side!

7 Nov 2020 11:50 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Communist MP in Britain was Tata's cousin, Gandhi's...

The book is called Comrade Sak and is written by Mark Wadsworth, a black British writer with Caribbean roots

31 Oct 2020 9:42 AM IST

This re-enactment of the Chicago 7 trial, with Bobby Seale, the only black defendant, bound and gagged in public when he vociferously protested against a judgement of the bench, was also an essential and telling record of US history.(Twitter/@hitRECordJoe)

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Farrukh Dhondy | OF CABBAGES AND KINGS

Tried! When Arun Jaitley batted for art and when my films weren't banned

24 Oct 2020 11:22 AM IST

The Egyptian queen is be played by Gal Gadot, an Israeli star of Greek lineage. Her ethnicity has caused what the clich© appropriately calls a Twitter storm. (AFP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Multi-ethnic casting rows nothing new, just look back

Last week a new film on Cleopatra was announced and the Egyptian queen is to be played by Gal Gadot, leading to a...

17 Oct 2020 9:54 AM IST

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson maintains a minutes silence to honour the frontline workers who lost their lives in the coronavirus outbreak. (AFP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Will India too leave divided histories', like US &...

The mass support, diverse and white for BLM, indicates that Britain too wants to leave divided histories behind.

11 Oct 2020 8:52 AM IST