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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."
    Britains home secretary Priti Patel. (AFP file photo)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy: Will Priti Patel's bill to bar lowly-paid outsiders...

    In a massive irony, Britain has been forced to acknowledge the heroic role of hospital staff, bus drivers, transport...

    23 May 2020 7:52 AM IST

    Representational image (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy: Some questions arise in intriguing Covid times

    The population of the world asks, when can we go back to normal which poses the question, when was anything normal?

    9 May 2020 6:59 PM IST

    n this file photo taken on March 7, 2020 Britains prime minister Boris Johnson (left) with his partner Carrie Symonds attend the Six Nations international rugby union match between England and Wales at the Twickenham in west London. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have named their son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson in a tribute to their grandfathers and the doctors who helped save the prime ministers life. (AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy: Won't Boris be on paternal leave after weeks off for...

    Boris is entitled to paternal leave of absence from his job

    3 May 2020 3:47 PM IST

    Britains home secretary Priti Patel attends a remote press conference to update the nation on the COVID-19 pandemic. (AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy: The British intellectual's changing currency

    Events of the last few years confirm the fact that times may change but the characteristics of Britain exhibit a...

    27 April 2020 12:42 AM IST

    Might the conspirators have reckoned without the philanthropist?Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy: Heard any good conspiracy theories lately?

    The one that's gone viral is that big pharmaceutical companies have spread this virus through the agency of The Dark...

    11 April 2020 7:13 PM IST

    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)Opinion
    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.Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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

    Harvey Weinstein.Opinion
    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

    Boris JohnsonOpinion
    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

    Boris JohnsonOpinion
    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 .Opinion
    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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