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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."
    Triple talaq has been distorted in India, and its far more important to ban this than use it as a wedge to encroach on Muslim personal laws. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Forget politics, triple talaq must go!

    The exercise of democracy in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh elections has thrown up a very essential, even vital debate.

    4 Feb 2017 4:27 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump speaks during a White House senior staff swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    If I were Prez Trump's foreign affairs adviser

    Trump ought to take immediate executive action to dynamite the Statue of Liberty, which stands in New York harbour.

    28 Jan 2017 12:09 AM IST

    US President Donald TrumpOpinion
    Trump's line: Boys will be boys

    Mr Trump stands accused of assisting the Russian secret services with intelligence on Russian businessmen in the US.

    21 Jan 2017 1:23 AM IST

    SOAS, University of London (Photo: soas.ac.uk)Opinion
    Can we decolonise' our minds?

    Their school was set up in colonial times by British imperialists working through London university to train personnel...

    14 Jan 2017 5:19 AM IST

    Stephen Hawkins (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Does a writer's opinion matter?

    The statement is an antidote to the opinions that stars who take themselves seriously periodically offer.

    7 Jan 2017 7:09 AM IST

    Supporters of LGBT and human rights wave rainbow flags during a rally supporting a proposal to allow same-sex marriage in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo: AP/File)Opinion
    Stories of race and isolation in London

    The isolationist report statistically detailed what Britain should be well aware of.

    31 Dec 2016 3:14 AM IST

    US President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    2016: Looking back in anger

    Globalisation has meant the export of capital to places where the labour force is the cheapest to train and employ.

    24 Dec 2016 5:06 AM IST

    Representational imageOpinion
    Second war of offended sentiments?

    Karl Marx wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce.

    17 Dec 2016 5:53 AM IST

    Dileep Padgaonkar (Photo: AP)Opinion
    A cooked-up story that was true

    Lucky persisted in his claim to be the only lover who didn't pay for her services.

    10 Dec 2016 12:47 AM IST

    Dileep Padgaonkar (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Flashback: Journo tales from Poona

    Dileep never lost the ideals of liberty, equality, fraternity and the Indian secular ideal.

    3 Dec 2016 3:25 AM IST

    US President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Walls of disharmony

    The separation of the haves and have-nots through walls and legal barriers can be characterised as anti-globalisation.

    26 Nov 2016 12:16 AM IST

    US President-elect Donald Trump (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Donald Trump's list' to stop terrorism

    Combating terrorism is a laudable aim and one we support because terrorism causes the death of innocents.

    19 Nov 2016 4:07 AM IST

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