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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."
    A girl holds a draw reading Save Our World as demonstrators take part in the Fridays for Future Scotland march, during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Is there hope for planet, or will prophets of doom...

    As with Covid, humanity is in this together

    6 Nov 2021 2:42 AM IST

    The inquest into Amess death is yet to take place, but there is no doubt that Alis motive was Islamist terror choosing a random MP as a victim for reasons that his warped faith dictated. Representational Image. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Convictions that are faith-based hard to fathom for a...

    Perhaps that's a paradoxical assertion as understanding and faith are by definition opposed

    31 Oct 2021 2:55 AM IST

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    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 1:20 AM IST

    The shortages, Prime Minister BoJo has already proclaimed, will force industry and haulage companies to pay higher wages which will then turn the UK into a contemporary superpower. Representational Image. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Brexit's effects hit UK harder: Gig' workers bear the...

    The ships' departure will lead to the imports not reaching industries and consumer goods not reaching the shelves of...

    18 Oct 2021 1:09 AM IST

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    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 12:29 AM IST

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

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Why diversity is critical to being British

    Very many institutions in Britain have adopted what they call a policy of 'diversity'

    25 Sept 2021 6:51 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)Opinion
    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 2:01 AM IST

    A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobels, with new winners announced starting Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. (AP File)Opinion
    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 Sept 2021 2:37 AM IST

    A health worker counts syringes as she prepares to inoculate traders and shopkeepers with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a vaccination camp in Ahmedabad. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Why some still say no to jabs, forcing all into an...

    I am one of the 80 per cent of people in Britain who have had at least one anti-Covid vaccination

    4 Sept 2021 1:07 AM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Gender equity and literature: Are we taking things...

    Literature was to be judged by its literary skill and, absolutely, by its enforcement of humanistic, humanitarian and...

    28 Aug 2021 1:33 AM IST

    Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport on Monday, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistans 20-year war. (AFP Photo)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Hypocrisy runs amok in West as Kabul falls & dark...

    He reported from several cities as they fell to the Taliban offensive -- a hurricane through yielding fields

    21 Aug 2021 12:10 AM IST

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