Top
Home » Farrukh Dhondy
Farrukh Dhondy
About the AuthorFarrukh Dhondy
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."
    Local civilians walk past a tank destroyed during heavy fighting in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)Opinion
    Which is the real ‘War on the West’? By Putin & Trump, or the...

    Indian historians have been rewriting and telling the truth about colonial history for at least a century

    21 May 2022 12:21 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | How will history remember BoJo: ‘Churchillian’ or...

    BoJo fancies himself as a second Winston Churchill with constant posturing about defying Vladimir Putin as Churchill did...

    13 May 2022 11:55 PM IST

    A good Muslim friend tells me that Id is the occasion when the faithful ask God to recognise their sacrifice through fasting all through the days of Ramzan, not praying for material gifts, but for peace on earth and goodwill to humanity. (Representational Image/ DC)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Prayers, zakat for Ukrainians & all oppressed to show...

    Not all the Ehl-e-kitabists are united in condemning the slaughter and Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine

    7 May 2022 12:48 AM IST

    President Barack Obamas memoir on a window display at the Greenlight Bookstore in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on November 17, 2020 in New York City. (AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | On returning to bookshops; challenges on social media

    Will the cautionary lifting of Covid-19 restrictions bring book buyers back to the bookshops to savour the browsing...

    29 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

    A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologizing to MPs for the for the \partygate\ fine and making statement to MPs on the situation in Ukraine following its invasion by Russia during the first session after the on Easter Recess, at the House of Commons, in London, on April 19, 2022. (AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Did BoJo lie? I have a dream… of what may be coming...

    The breaking of the law by defying it and partying when it was forbidden will be retrospectively made a criminal offence

    22 April 2022 11:57 PM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Troubles piling up for Hedgie: ‘Non-dom’ wife,...

    There exists a perfectly legal way of evading tax on one’s income from abroad by declaring that one is a -'non-dom-'...

    15 April 2022 11:21 PM IST

    Channel 4 headquarters, London (Wikipedia)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Bid to ‘privatise’ UK’s Channel 4 puts free...

    Channel 4 avidly and rapidly established itself as the voice of critical, even impertinent, free speech

    9 April 2022 7:28 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | On theocracy, secularism, and new truths about the...

    Did Jinnah actually foresee the possibility of India’s pronounced secular democracy turning into a not-so-secular,...

    1 April 2022 11:27 PM IST

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Bureaucracy in UK, EU & India: Putin’s war to...

    Putin’s criminal war has caused the largest refugee crisis Europe has known since the Second World War

    26 March 2022 12:06 AM IST

    A Venue from Jaipur Literary Festival. (Twitter)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Ordeal to enter India; and ways to avoid writers at...

    A very pleasant and talkative driver drove me through the several traffic jams and road-work hold-ups in six hours to...

    21 March 2022 12:41 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | There’s a price for supporting democracy: Are we...

    Not buying Russian gas and oil may cause serious problems there. But then, supporting democracy, even nascent ones,...

    12 March 2022 1:23 AM IST

    ‘Racism warning’ for Shakespeare, Hemingway: Is it tip of the iceberg?Opinion
    ‘Racism warning’ for Shakespeare, Hemingway: Is it tip of the...

    In my critical understanding there is woke, and there is what has to be labelled -'Jwoke-'!

    4 March 2022 11:55 PM IST

    X
    sidekick