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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."

In this photo provided by UK Parliament, Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center, attends Prime Ministers Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Hedgie desperate to clean up mess, as BoJo all out to...

BoJo signed a deal whereby the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would remain open for the...

25 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

$In this April 5, 2002 file photo, The Koh-i-noor, or \mountain of light,\ diamond, set in the Maltese Cross at the front of the crown made for Britains late Queen Mother Elizabeth, is seen on her coffin as it is drawn to Londons Westminster Hall. (Photo: AP)$ Opinion

Farrukh Dhondy | Flummery' at King's coronation, but no Kohinoor in...

Camilla, the Queen Consort, will not wear the crown inherited from Queen Victoria at the coronation ceremony

18 Feb 2023 12:35 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | On truth' in the Age of Internet: How Wikipedia is...

There lies one of the instant hazards of Internet biography -- one can't tell lies about one's age any more.

11 Feb 2023 12:54 AM IST

India has built a reputation for being in some way spiritual . Its not just a local conviction and pride, its internationally touted and recognised. (Representational Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | The Indian mind & spirituality': Don't forget science

The connection is not black-and-white and perhaps just part of the prejudice of my own absolute materialistic...

4 Feb 2023 12:58 AM IST

People watch the screening of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, in Thiruvananthapuram. (PTI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Allegations in a democracy: It's best to debate, not...

In healthy democracies, allegations will be argued over. They shouldn't be subject to a total niqab being drawn over...

28 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prince Harry (DC Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | What Harry the Spare' is really aiming for: To stay...

Harry's war against the British royals and the British media is conducted with the contemporary equivalent of the proxy...

21 Jan 2023 12:56 AM IST

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Racism, hatred amongst royals: Tell-all by Harry may...

Harry has given two substantial interviews to the press. Some of it is dirty linen and some of it is innocuous self-pity

14 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (C) sits in an aircraft departing from Kathmandu to France, on December 23, 2022. - French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on December 23 after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali prison. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Revisiting the Serpent' saga: My encounters with...

Sobhraj first got in touch with me in 1997. He rang my office at Channel Four TV, UK, where I was a commissioning editor

31 Dec 2022 12:21 AM IST

Britains Finance minister Rishi Sunak said that hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs, and sadly in the coming months many more will. (AP Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | Food or warmth? Tough choices on Hedgie's watch as...

The inflation crisis is called the cost-of-living (CoL) crisis as the price of everything is going up by leaps and...

24 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

In Britain, which has certainly been demographically transformed into a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-faith society in the last 50 years, it has become customary to ask first-generation immigrants where they come from without any malice intended. (Photo: Twitter)

Farrukh Dhondy | Where are you from? UK row erupts on royal racism,...

Can we understand an 83-year-old privileged lady being unaware that her attitude and persistence amounted to abuse ?

17 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

A latest searching statistic in Britain has discovered that fewer than 50 per cent of the population now claim to be Christian (Representational Image/AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of right-wing bigots, religion & (in)tolerance in...

What the statistic tells us is that the influence of religion over life in Britain, unlike, say, in Iran or Afghanistan,...

3 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Meghan Markle (Photo: Instagram)

Farrukh Dhondy | When fantasy pretends to be history Does truth...

Gentle reader, there has always been a conflict between truth and blind nationalist interpretation of events

26 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST