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Farrukh Dhondy
Farrukh Dhondy | Style matters: Of dress codes and asserting individuality!
This, gentle reader, is an idle musing on a detail of our great, contemporary, egalitarian world
03 Dec 2021 11:48 PM
Farrukh Dhondy | Of property and ‘theft’ in today’s Britain: The rise of black money
I have, in my short and happy life, been a guest at the London luxury flats, houses and the country estates of Indians and indeed Pakistanis
23 Oct 2021 1:26 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Why I’m happy to be a snob… amid linguistic revolutionaries
Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians
09 Oct 2021 12:53 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | I told you so… UK fuel crisis shows fears on Brexit justified
No, gentle reader, the supply of fuel had not been curtailed by the oil-fields of the world being flooded by climate-change tsunamis
02 Oct 2021 1:45 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Was it cruel? Why Gavin had to go in Boris’ shuffle
Gavin Williamson then supported Boris Johnson for the leadership of the party and was rewarded by BoJo with the education portfolio
18 Sep 2021 2:20 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Will vaccine philantrophy be deserving of a Nobel?
In 2019, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia
12 Sep 2021 2:50 AM
Book Review | An immigrant’s progress and other scoops from Old Blighty
Did Ronald Reagan really think after seeing Attenborough’s film that Indira Gandhi was the Mahatma’s daughter?
12 Sep 2021 2:30 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Should we write English as it’s spoken? Or just leave it as it is…
Despite its anti-phonic spelling, English has become the language of many nations — albeit through colonisation and conquest
01 May 2021 12:00 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | All changes not a ‘revolution’: History can’t be just swept aside
Bloody Myanmar today is not a revolution, it is an imposed change of regime, best described as a fascist military coup
10 Apr 2021 12:05 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Of ‘patriotism’ & ‘nationalism’: It may be time to do a rethink
In any democratic country today, patriotism ought to mean love for and loyalty to a country that defines itself
06 Mar 2021 4:43 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Life on Zoom: You learn a lot about yourself, and others too
If Indians had invented the ethereal conversation device and needed an onomatopoeic name for it, they would probably have called it Dhishoom
27 Feb 2021 4:17 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Why we need to ‘tolerate’ all those who have contrary views
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
Farrukh Dhondy | Multi-ethnic casting rows nothing new, just look back
Last week a new film on Cleopatra was announced and the Egyptian queen is to be played by Gal Gadot, leading to a Twitter storm
17 Oct 2020 9:54 AM
Translating Rumi rhythm and rhyme is a challenge: Dhondy
To retain the meaning of the couplet, the thought or metaphor that it contains, and yet deliver the English in rhythm and rhyme is hard
19 Jul 2020 3:15 PM
Farrukh Dhondy: The British intellectual’s changing currency
Events of the last few years confirm the fact that times may change but the characteristics of Britain exhibit a continuity
27 Apr 2020 12:42 AM
Farrukh Dhondy: Heard any good conspiracy theories lately?
The one that's gone viral is that big pharmaceutical companies have spread this virus through the agency of “The Dark State”
11 Apr 2020 7:13 PM
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Columns
China’s 'loan and own' strategy seems to have backfired in this piece of paradise which lies in the Indian Ocean
Perhaps the Sue Gray report should be labelled 'fifty shades of shame'
For a party in serious need of repair, this is a fair enough start, though clearly more needs to happen
The move has created a gap of six years between parallel ranks in the IAS and IPS, and IPS officers are upset at this 'unprecedented' order