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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."
    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | The Elon-Donald Comic Soap Opera: Who’ll End On Top? Amid UK Tussle… | Farrukh DhondyColumnists
    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | The Elon-Donald Comic Soap Opera: Who’ll End...

    How “rising” is this political party? One is tempted to call it extreme right-wing, with its anti-immigrant rhetoric,...

    14 Jun 2025 12:07 AM IST

    Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)Columnists
    Farrukh Dhondy | Of Tariq Ali, And His Take on Ho, The Rushdie Fatwa &...

    I said I remembered telling Salman I didn’t in principle object to book- burning and would be quite pleased if, say, the...

    7 Jun 2025 12:10 AM IST

    Farrukh Dhondy | Of ‘Paki-bashing’ in UK and the 2024 ‘Uprising’ which Swept BangladeshColumnists
    Farrukh Dhondy | Of ‘Paki-bashing’ in UK and the 2024 ‘Uprising’ which...

    Bangladesh’s popular movement is, in our times, unique for demonstrating that a people’s uprising is perhaps the greater...

    30 May 2025 10:17 PM IST

    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Of Pet Dogs, Cats & Other Animals… And The Rights of Tenants in Britain | Farrukh DhondyColumnists
    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Of Pet Dogs, Cats & Other Animals… And The...

    The bill is being met with all manner of qualifications and amendments. Should it, for instance, specify which animals...

    24 May 2025 2:13 AM IST

    Farrukh Dhondy | Of ‘Transgenderism’; Battles Over Choices by Men & Women on Sexual PreferencesColumnists
    Farrukh Dhondy | Of ‘Transgenderism’; Battles Over Choices by Men &...

    Writers and courts weigh in as transgender rights clash with biology and law

    16 May 2025 10:08 PM IST

    Farrukh Dhondy | UK to Celebrate Raj Kapoor’s Heroic Myths of India After 1947Columnists
    Farrukh Dhondy | UK to Celebrate Raj Kapoor’s Heroic Myths of India...

    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS“No height to which a tree can growNo ambition for the steady and slowNo limit to the number of...

    10 May 2025 2:07 AM IST

    Farrukh Dhondy | My Life With Literary Indo-Brit ‘Legends’ Like Salman Rushdie, Kureishi & Tariq AliColumnists
    Farrukh Dhondy | My Life With Literary Indo-Brit ‘Legends’ Like Salman...

    A personal glimpse into the courage, brilliance, and legacy of three “Indo-Brit” literary greats

    2 May 2025 9:44 PM IST

    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | The ‘Grand Mughals’ at London’s V&A: Of Tipu Sultan, Sufis & Some Surprises Too | Farrukh DhondyColumnists
    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | The ‘Grand Mughals’ at London’s V&A: Of Tipu...

    The exhibition’s curators presented all the pomp, but none of the circumstance. The V&A exhibition connived to present...

    25 April 2025 11:25 PM IST

    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Is Nurse Guilty or Innocent? Cause Célèbre UK Justice Test | Farrukh DhondyColumnists
    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Is Nurse Guilty or Innocent? Cause Célèbre UK...

    The evidence that convicted her was mostly that of medical experts and some inferences from notes in her personal diary

    18 April 2025 11:45 PM IST

    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | ‘Wokery’, diversity face rising attacks; Bard’s Stratford is being ‘decolonised’ | Farrukh DhondyColumnists
    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | ‘Wokery’, diversity face rising attacks;...

    This is the sort of declaration that could be classed as wokery. It’s fairly harmless. I think it means that they intend...

    11 April 2025 11:19 PM IST

    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Why are the verses of Jalaluddin Rumi such a best-seller in materialistic US? | Farrukh DhondyColumnists
    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Why are the verses of Jalaluddin Rumi such a...

    The “translations” of Rumi that make it to the best-seller list are by various Americans, among them a gentleman called...

    4 April 2025 11:03 PM IST

    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Vietnam vignettes: How a Communist country celebrates its entrepreneurs | Farrukh DhondyColumnists
    OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Vietnam vignettes: How a Communist country...

    Hanoi, a city of a hundred lakes, has an island in the centre called Banana Island. No marks for guessing what it grows!

    28 March 2025 10:49 PM IST

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