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The debate around trans-genders is about the rights of people to identify as they wish and not be discriminated in any way for so doing. (Photo by DIPTENDU DUTTA / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | If you can pick your gender... why can’t you choose species?

Liberal opinion in the shape of the Scottish Parliament passed a law to allow people to choose their gender.

08 Jul 2023 12:10 AM

Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, Newfoundland (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of May Balls in Cambridge… as Titan ‘adventure’ leads to tragedy

When the debris is examined by submarine experts, we shall probably know how the disaster occurred

01 Jul 2023 11:58 AM

Britain's first Indian-origin Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)

Farrukh Dhondy | Does African link colour attitudes of Indians in British politics?

s there a way of telling the mind’s construction by the candidacy or the policy?

01 Apr 2023 12:08 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Of property and ‘theft’ in today’s Britain: The rise of black money

I have, in my short and happy life, been a guest at the London luxury flats, houses and the country estates of Indians and indeed Pakistanis

23 Oct 2021 1:26 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Why I’m happy to be a snob… amid linguistic revolutionaries

Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians

09 Oct 2021 12:53 AM

The shortage of fuel to vehicles is not the only acute crisis that Britain is suffering. (AFP Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | I told you so… UK fuel crisis shows fears on Brexit justified

No, gentle reader, the supply of fuel had not been curtailed by the oil-fields of the world being flooded by climate-change tsunamis

02 Oct 2021 1:45 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Was it cruel? Why Gavin had to go in Boris’ shuffle

Gavin Williamson then supported Boris Johnson for the leadership of the party and was rewarded by BoJo with the education portfolio

18 Sep 2021 2:20 AM

The Nobel awards have at times been controversial. (File Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Will vaccine philantrophy be deserving of a Nobel?

In 2019, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia

12 Sep 2021 2:50 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Signs of hope in UK’s Batley, as teacher triggers extremist calls

Mohammed Amin Pandor, a publicity seeker and a graduate engineer from Dewsbury recently issued a fatwa against the Covid-19 vaccine

03 Apr 2021 7:57 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Why it’s crucial to stand up for views you may not agree with…

The definition of hate crime in any democracy should not deteriorate or ever be interpreted as 'Disagree Crime'

20 Feb 2021 7:17 AM

While it may be difficult for common sense to comprehend why people en masse would refuse a vaccine that would save their lives in a dangerous pandemic, these religious arguments have to be dispensed with on religious terms. (Representational image.Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Time to bust anti-vaccine myths… as all must get jab!

Some brave mullahs have turned their Islamic halls into vaccination centres and encouraged the community to get jabbed

30 Jan 2021 7:35 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Why we need to ‘tolerate’ all those who have contrary views

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

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