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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."
    The underground metro rail stretch from Koyambedu to Shenoy Nagar is likely to be thrown open to the public next week, sources in Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) have said.Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: An open letter to my fellow Parsis

    It's an urgent matter, stimulated by the news that Mumbai is planning to build an underground railway system.

    21 Oct 2017 3:55 AM IST

    Food hangover are becoming a common experience. (Photo: Pexels)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Indian meal in UK - Keep it simple

    Several surveys assert that chicken tikka masala has overtaken roast beef in the Brit popularity stakes.

    7 Oct 2017 12:52 AM IST

    Police provide security at Paddington mainline train station in London, after a terrorist incident was declared at nearby Parsons Green subway station Friday (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Britain and the roots of terror

    Britain's capitalism imported the cheapest labour it could find from its ex-colonies in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

    30 Sept 2017 1:36 AM IST

    Theresa MayOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Gurus & shishyas on first-name terms

    In the last year in Britain the generation gap has played a severe hand in politics.

    23 Sept 2017 1:51 AM IST

    Smoke billows from a fire that has engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Fire alert - Putting cost before safety

    The fire took fire-engines and fire-fighters from all over London three days to extinguish.

    16 Sept 2017 12:36 AM IST

    Cabbages & Kings: Why did the English stay behindOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Why did the English stay behind

    There was no analysis of how Partition came about, though several historians had their partial say.

    2 Sept 2017 1:10 AM IST

    Anwar Karakkadan, the district coordinator of the Childline, said around 80 percent of the child abuse cases here had a connection with drug and sexual abuses.Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Ethnic heritage behind child abuse

    Some Labour MPs supported Ms Champion's stance and said the ethnic factor had to be socially and criminally...

    19 Aug 2017 12:39 AM IST

    In picture: The main entrance to the headquarters of the BBC in London. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: BBC - Push for diversity on air

    The latest statistics show that for the £7.5 million spent on the network it gets 632,000 listeners a week.

    12 Aug 2017 12:56 AM IST

    The state syllabus textbooks were reviewed by the textbook review committee, headed by well-known writer Prof. Baraguru Ramachandrappa. After nearly a two-year exercise, the textbooks were introduced from this academic year.(Representational Image)Opinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Indian English poets & their verse

    Stories about her teaching, her severity, compassion and inspiring insights are, at least in Mumbai circles, legion.

    5 Aug 2017 1:05 AM IST

    Suchitra KrishnamoorthiOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: Tread cautiously, we live in difficult times

    Every religion is associated in some way with sounds.

    29 July 2017 12:23 AM IST

    The High Court on Tuesday sought the response of the Centre and the TS and AP governments on a petition seeking to declare the Penna, Krishna, Godavari, Vamsadhara and Nagavali rivers and their tributaries flowing in the Telugu states as living entities.Opinion
    More power to petitions!

    The first attacks I read about were the disfiguring of women's faces by jealous lovers or ex-lovers.

    22 July 2017 3:55 AM IST

    Cabbages & Kings: India - No place for linguistic militantsOpinion
    Cabbages & Kings: India - No place for linguistic militants

    Theresa May ordered the immediate suspension of Ms Morris from the Party.

    15 July 2017 1:05 AM IST

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