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The Parsi Navjote ceremony involves taking a sip of cows urine while pronouncing the Avestan prayers. So, theres another Aryan prescription that comes down to us through centuries. (PTI Photo)

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Farrukh Dhondy: Cult of cow urine not the only history Indians,...

The King Porus that Alexander defeated was likely a satrap of Darius III and governed lands west of the Indus under the...

4 April 2020 8:24 AM IST

The obvious way forward in the toilet paper crisis is to require every TV station to make demonstrative ads showing people how to use their left hands.

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Of Cabbages and Kings: Toilet manners, etiquette and business ideas in...

Much is being made of the toilet paper crisis but there could be profit in this plague

28 March 2020 7:25 PM IST

Priti Patel was elected as a Conservative MP for Witham in Essex in 2010 and gained prominence in the then David Cameron-led Tory government as his Indian Diaspora Champion. (Photo: AFP)

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Mantri on rampage: Priti Patel is bullying London's top babus

This investigation will look into whether Ms Patel's behaviour in high office transgressed the ministerial code.

7 March 2020 7:09 AM IST

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When British VIPs get away with sexual abuse

Weinstein, with a very successful film company behind him, sported one magnetic field of power.

29 Feb 2020 7:11 AM IST

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Of hate speech, misfits, weirdoes and thought police' in Boris'...

The boast of modern democratic societies is that they uphold the principles of freedom of speech.

22 Feb 2020 3:20 AM IST

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Just shoot 'em? UK must tackle jihadi cells in jails

My father's pronouncements had no consideration for such subtleties.

15 Feb 2020 6:18 AM IST

One of the great scholars when it comes to Urdu literature, Gopi Chand Narang, was quoted as saying that, Urdu is not the language of Muslims. If at all there is any language of Muslims, it should be Arabic. Urdu belongs to the composite culture of India. Hindi and Urdu are supplementary and complementary. They are like sisters strengthening each other .

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When a Parsi is Hindu' but a Muslim isn't

One of these boxes asked for the religion of the dead person. The form, or perhaps it was the operative, offered her two...

10 Feb 2020 1:22 AM IST

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In Disunited Kingdom, Brexit's pain may be felt most by those backing...

So, gentle reader, welcome to DK the Disunited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

1 Feb 2020 3:19 AM IST

The photographers said they were actively seeking old Parsis and would put their portraits in a book. Gosh, I thought, at last fame is just one phone call away. (Representational image)

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Selfies will archive ordinary Indians

Parsis came to India in numbers around the eighth century from Persia, after that homeland was invaded by the Arabs in...

25 Jan 2020 5:58 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

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We don't need no revolution... but is Establishment winning?

The countrywide demonstrations against the recent acts of the BJP government are part of the fight for the soul of this...

18 Jan 2020 3:06 AM IST

Prince Harry, Meghan and baby Archie landed by commercial flight from London before heading to Nyanga. (Photo: AFP)

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UK public in favour of Harry & Meghan going off to United States

The royal family has assigned duties and is paid by the taxpayer to perform them.

11 Jan 2020 6:29 AM IST

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Perhaps cannabis was exhilarating stuff, quaffed by the early Aryans

In Britain, at university, and then through long political association with West Indian comrades, there was a lot of...

4 Jan 2020 12:44 AM IST