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Farrukh Dhondy
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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."
    British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Chess game democracy in the UK?

    It's pocket science to realise that democracy means very different things in different countries and institutions.

    29 Sept 2018 12:48 AM IST

    Uday Chopra was last seen in Dhoom 3.Opinion
    Of marijuana and the Mumbai police

    Chopra quotes several reasons for legalising it. He rightly says it's an integral part of Indian culture.

    22 Sept 2018 1:30 AM IST

    All 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds titled Protecting Your Information. It will have a link to information on which Facebook apps they use and what information they have shared with those apps. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)Opinion
    Of Internet yug and copyright

    I suppose the name Johnny Depp wouldn't mean much to people in a village in Savantwadi or maybe in our...

    15 Sept 2018 5:57 AM IST

    In TV there is an increasing tendency to try and reduce drama to formulae: In a series there ought to be x number of characters who appear in all episodes. Each episode should follow y number of main plots and z number of subsidiary ones etc. (Representational image)Opinion
    Lies, damned pretences and statistics

    Not being a gambler or not having, at the time, any money to gamble, my friends and I never bought the opening†sheet.

    8 Sept 2018 1:03 AM IST

    Jamie OliverOpinion
    Religion is sacred, recipes are not

    The term jerk†doesn't mean that the curried victim pig or chicken was executed by snapping its neck.

    1 Sept 2018 2:47 AM IST

    Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018)Opinion
    Sir Vidia and his A team

    Vidia regarded the whole doctrine of the equality of human beings in intellect, character and culture as foolishness.

    25 Aug 2018 12:10 AM IST

    Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)Opinion
    'Burqa jokes' become a pawn in the great game of 'Politopoly'

    What could be characterised, absorbed and dismissed as prankish provocation of an idiosyncratic satirist, was not in...

    18 Aug 2018 4:18 AM IST

    On the way home we discussed the fact that there was a Parsi graveyard at all. Brits would not have looked kindly on Parsis setting up a Tower of Silence where vultures could eat the corpses of their dead.Opinion
    A grave Sunday visit

    Of course, the surnames on the Parsi graves are familiar.

    14 Aug 2018 1:38 AM IST

    Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018)Opinion
    Farewell Sir Vidia! Always politically incorrect

    VS Naipaul first book on India was, as he said to me, the product of disillusion.

    13 Aug 2018 12:35 AM IST

    Britains Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (Photo: AP)Opinion
    UK Labour must tackle its anti-Semitism

    Several Muslim leaders objected and complained to Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, to take action.

    4 Aug 2018 2:21 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Crime, religion can't be clubbed

    The pretence for this outrage was that some of these individuals had not subsequently registered their British...

    28 July 2018 2:44 AM IST

    The fact that Manchester Universitys student diversity officer and liberation and access officer initiate a move to erase If from their sight, will not result in Kiplings works disappearing from the history of literature. (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

    The students are absolutely within their rights to airbrush poems they don't want to see on the walls of what is their...

    21 July 2018 12:33 AM IST

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