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Kishwar Desai, is the chair of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, which is setting up the Partition Museum at Town Hall, Amritsar.
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    Kishwar Desai | Women's Week: Meghan vs Kate, let-down nurses, Sarah...

    Boris Johnson announced unapologetically that nurses on the NHS will only get one per cent increase in their pay

    15 March 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Twenty million have already been vaccinated (36 per cent of population), more than in France, Germany, Italy and Spain put together. (Representational Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Britain's spot of schadenfreude; pregnancy triggers...

    The only problem with the hot weather is that all chances of social distancing are gone!

    1 March 2021 4:33 AM IST

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    Kishwar Desai | Darcy zest adds zing to V-week; Suella's baby may lead...

    Darcy, in the novel, turned out to be a perfect lover and so perhaps we can hope for warmer days as the sun now is...

    15 Feb 2021 4:52 AM IST

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    Kishwar Desai | King of Spices to be dearly missed; Boris really hated...

    Those of us who arrived here and craved Indian food know how much the Patak brand meant for our tastebuds

    1 Feb 2021 7:39 AM IST

    Pedestrians walk on a near-deserted Westminster Bridge in central London on January 16, 2021, during the third nationwide novel coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Long lockdown defeats Britons; Spurs' shot in the arm...

    We have vaccinations slowly covering the population but as of now it will be Easter before the over 50s will be covered

    18 Jan 2021 12:50 AM IST

    It was a long complicated Bill but after four-and-a-half years of bickering and three Prime Ministers, Parliament approved the Bill by 11 pm. Then the Queen, as Head of State, signed it near midnight and the UK had legally approved of Brexit (Representational Image: AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | UK's freedom' at midnight; Queen's NY honours go to 89...

    2020 had one last blow to deliver. Partly responsible was the super-super spreader mutation of Covid-19

    4 Jan 2021 4:32 AM IST

    An NHS pharmacy technician simulates the preparation of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, during a staff training session ahead of the vaccines rollout next week, at the Royal Free Hospital in London on December 4. (Yui Mok / POOL / AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | After vax first, will lucky Boris' swing Brexit deal?

    The triumph of UK being first in the world among the vaxxers' did not go down well with everyone

    7 Dec 2020 8:59 AM IST

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    Kishwar Desai | Anti-Semitism is why Meghnad quit; all hope for...

    On the personal front, it was quite a tumultuous week for us, as my husband, Meghnad Desai, left the Labour Party after...

    22 Nov 2020 9:07 PM IST

    People exercise in Green Park in central London on November 8, 2020 during a second national lockdown designed to contain soaring infections of the novel coronavirus. (AFP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | London Diary

    Locked down yet again, UK knows the rules but likes them less and less

    9 Nov 2020 11:04 AM IST

    A woman wearing a face covering to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past the window of a GAP clothing store just off Oxford Street, in London, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a new month-long lockdown for England that will start on Thursday, after being warned that without tough action a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks. (AP)Opinion
    Kishwar Desai | Why Covid stress affects the young; UK gets ready for...

    Even on the Covid front, situation in UK is getting worse rather than better

    2 Nov 2020 8:43 PM IST

    A pedestrian walks past a poster of a person wearing a face covering, in the high street in west London. AFP photoOpinion
    Ill, Boris had a harder time; virus blow to James Bond

    The only constant is that like the scientists, the government is also at a loss

    12 Oct 2020 3:58 PM IST

    A woman rides a scooter past an advertising board outside a closed down branch of STA Travel near Victoria Station in central London. AFP PhotoOpinion
    Kishwar Desai | The latest ruse to meet people; e-cycles are the new...

    How London traffic will cope with bicycles as well as e-cycles remains to be seen

    31 Aug 2020 5:35 PM IST

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