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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."
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    Farrukh Dhondy | Should we stop reading writers whose views are truly...

    Religious and regional rivalries, breeding even genocidal prejudice, have bedevilled history

    25 Jun 2022 7:37 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Trouble mounts for BoJo all over UK: Will Rwanda come...

    Today the British government claims that Rwanda is the safest, most progressive, internationally engaged country in...

    17 Jun 2022 11:02 PM IST

    Queen Elizabeth II (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Why royalty in Britain works: Few in favour of a...

    In the last week, for three officially designated days, Britain celebrated the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

    11 Jun 2022 12:13 AM IST

    Recently, the local government of the city of Grantham in Lincolnshire, UK, spent £300,000 on a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britains first woman Prime Minister. (Twitter)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | The rewriting of history: How do toppling of statues...

    All statues commemorate some real, legendary or imagined virtue

    4 Jun 2022 12:01 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo broke all the rules, but will stay, there's no...

    Perhaps the Sue Gray report should be labelled 'fifty shades of shame'

    28 May 2022 12:23 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | How will history remember BoJo: Churchillian' or for...

    BoJo fancies himself as a second Winston Churchill with constant posturing about defying Vladimir Putin as Churchill did...

    13 May 2022 11:55 PM IST

    Farrukh Dhondy | Did BoJo lie? I have a dream of what may be coming next!Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Did BoJo lie? I have a dream of what may be coming...

    The breaking of the law by defying it and partying when it was forbidden will be retrospectively made a criminal offence

    22 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Troubles piling up for Hedgie: Non-dom' wife,...

    There exists a perfectly legal way of evading tax on one's income from abroad by declaring that one is a 'non-dom' --...

    15 April 2022 11:16 PM IST

    Channel 4 headquarters, London (Wikipedia)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Bid to privatise' UK's Channel 4 puts free speech in...

    Channel 4 avidly and rapidly established itself as the voice of critical, even impertinent, free speech

    9 April 2022 7:28 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | On theocracy, secularism, and new truths about the...

    Did Jinnah actually foresee the possibility of India's pronounced secular democracy turning into a not-so-secular,...

    1 April 2022 11:26 PM IST

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Bureaucracy in UK, EU & India: Putin's war to BoJo's...

    Putin's criminal war has caused the largest refugee crisis Europe has known since the Second World War

    26 March 2022 12:15 AM IST

    A Venue from Jaipur Literary Festival. (Twitter)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Ordeal to enter India; and ways to avoid writers at...

    A very pleasant and talkative driver drove me through the several traffic jams and road-work hold-ups in six hours to...

    21 March 2022 12:40 AM IST

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