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Farrukh Dhondy
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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Wailing mothers, grieving children and the helplessness of marginalised people mock our politics
It is shocking that Beijing has never returned the remains of Subedar Joginder Singh, Param Vir Chakra, who died in Tibet in November 1962
India desperately needs the emergency medical aid that is pouring in from several richer countries
Is India’s fabled 'steel frame' only creaking or is it screaming?