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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."

My constant, even daily, use of Zoom has given me several useless insights into human behaviour, perhaps not new ones, but ones that confirm what we do and are. (Representational Image: Twitter: @zoom_us)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Life on Zoom: You learn a lot about yourself, and...

If Indians had invented the ethereal conversation device and needed an onomatopoeic name for it, they would probably...

27 Feb 2021 4:17 AM IST

Priti Patel, United Kingdom home secretary (Photo: AP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | How to apply for a job to home secy of Blunderland!

I guarantee Pritiji, these thoughts of yours which I have humbly attempted to put into words will get you to be PM

13 Feb 2021 12:00 AM IST

As of January 23, 39 million people in the so-called first world had received an anti-Covid vaccination. (Representational Photo: AFP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | To ensure safety in a globalised world, all must get...

The number of people who have been vaccinated in the continent of Africa, excluding South Africa, was 29

6 Feb 2021 12:56 AM IST

In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

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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 IST

Income Tax Department cautions people against phishing e-mails promising refund. (PTI Photo)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Hoax on TV anchor is a wake-up call on fake offers

Gentle reader, Ms Razdan is not the only one to have fallen for fake offers which arrive through the Internet

23 Jan 2021 12:07 AM IST

The deniers of vaccination who pose a puzzle are those who have no such complete theory of the universe. What they have instead is the Internet through which the most abject nonsense is spread. (Representational Photo:AFP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Time for all to get Covid jabs; don't listen to...

There are millions of idiots around the world who are anti-vaccers

16 Jan 2021 12:00 AM IST

An illustration picture taken on November 19, 2020, shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)

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Of Chinese virus, Spanish flu, UK strain: Do points of origin matter?

Of course, viruses, just like us Parsis, are sometimes named after the things we do and sometimes after the places from...

9 Jan 2021 7:38 AM IST

As the saying goes, Britannia may have ruled the waves and now it has disastrously decided to waive the rules (Representational Image: AFP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | At last, Britain is free of EU Now see who'll make it...

The EU was the insurance and safeguard against the global dominance of the American and Chinese hegemonies

2 Jan 2021 12:15 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Of creativity in a plague year gadget fixing & dosa...

I have myself been exploring the idea that enforced idleness may be the chief begetter of creative genius

26 Dec 2020 12:54 PM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Researching Wikipedia on the origins of toxic words

And in my idle researches I find that there are places where Wikipedia doesn't fear to tread

19 Dec 2020 12:30 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Why we need to tolerate' all those who have contrary...

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 IST

Screengrab from A Suitable Boy. (Twitter)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Row over a kiss: It's puritanism, not a breach of...

There is no puritan tradition in Hinduism which would forbid the depiction of two lovers kissing outside a KFC shop or a...

28 Nov 2020 5:11 AM IST