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Book Review | Christ As A Buddhist Monk?

Book Review | Christ As A Buddhist Monk?

Fr. Dara travels to Cambridge to meet Banko, tasked with translating the manuscript. Dhondy adds an intriguing...

6 Jun 2026 2:12 PM IST

The Egyptian queen is be played by Gal Gadot, an Israeli star of Greek lineage. Her ethnicity has caused what the clich© appropriately calls a Twitter storm. (AFP)

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...

17 Oct 2020 9:54 AM IST

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

Jalaluddin Rumi (Insta image)

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...

19 July 2020 3:15 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Of property and theft' in today's Britain: The rise...

I have, in my short and happy life, been a guest at the London luxury flats, houses and the country estates of Indians...

23 Oct 2021 1:26 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Why I'm happy to be a snob amid linguistic...

Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians

9 Oct 2021 12:53 AM IST

The shortage of fuel to vehicles is not the only acute crisis that Britain is suffering. (AFP Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | I told you so UK fuel crisis shows fears on Brexit...

No, gentle reader, the supply of fuel had not been curtailed by the oil-fields of the world being flooded by...

2 Oct 2021 1:45 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Style matters: Of dress codes and asserting...

This, gentle reader, is an idle musing on a detail of our great, contemporary, egalitarian world

3 Dec 2021 11:48 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Of patriotism' & nationalism': It may be time to do a...

In any democratic country today, patriotism ought to mean love for and loyalty to a country that defines itself

6 March 2021 4:43 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | All changes not a revolution': History can't be just...

Bloody Myanmar today is not a revolution, it is an imposed change of regime, best described as a fascist military coup

10 April 2021 12:05 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Should we write English as it's spoken? Or just leave...

Despite its anti-phonic spelling, English has become the language of many nations albeit through colonisation and...

1 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly defended his controversial plan to override sections of the Brexit deal that he negotiated with the European Union, arguing that the bloc has an extreme interpretation of the treaty that could jeopardize the future of the U.K. (AP)

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...

18 Sept 2021 2:20 AM IST