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Kishwar Desai, is the chair of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, which is setting up the Partition Museum at Town Hall, Amritsar.

King Charles (DC File Photo)

Kishwar Desai | More royal family drama looming as coronation nears;...

It will be coronation time again after 70 years! London will be the place to be in May. Preparations have begun...

6 March 2023 12:55 AM IST

$\What a surprise! A few weeks after the BBC aired the documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BBC India is now raided by Income Tax (IT) department officials. Agencies like Income Tax, CBI, and ED have become laughing stock for turning into BJPs biggest puppets. What next? ED raids on Hindenberg or a hostile takeover attempt?(sic) he asked. (DC)$ Opinion

Kishwar Desai | BBC trouble may take Sharp turn; how Sajid plans to...

Do not for a moment think BBC has a problem only in India. It has a bigger problem at home. The chairman of BBC Richard...

20 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

Kishwar Desai | Whiff of duplicity! Why did BBC sit on Gujarat...

The BBC story with a narrative that was obviously antagonistic towards the Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, is...

23 Jan 2023 12:30 AM IST

Prince Harry and Meghan (Image: Netflix)

Kishwar Desai | Will the -'Spare-' (Prince Harry) end up richer than...

Happy 2023. Brrr. It is cold here and snow is threatened this coming week. Of course, while there may have been a...

9 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

With the new year around the corner party goers are scouting for suburbs. (PTI Photo/Representational)

Kishwar Desai | After a Christmas of misery, looking to New Year with...

After a rather gloomy Christmas where strikes where the dominating theme, we are now reeling into a New Year where...

26 Dec 2022 12:51 AM IST

Diana and Meghan did the democratic world a favour in boldly exposing the underbelly of the royal family, which by itself is an anachronism in the modern age. (SAEED KHAN / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Furore erupts as Harry & Meghan reveal the â€˜truthâ€™...

Well, it’s that couple again! In India we are used to doleful saas-bahu serials so this is nothing new. We all...

12 Dec 2022 1:22 AM IST

Visitors stop to take a photograph with a giant Christmas tree outside Battersea Power Station in south London on November 27, 2022. (Photo by Justin TALLIS / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Christmas lights across London as UK heads for winter...

The streets of London are decked with Christmas buntings, spectacular lights and bunches of berries and holly as music...

28 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

British Prime Minister-elect Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata at the Bhaktivedanta Manor temple on August 18 ahead of Sri Krishna Janmashtami (Image: Twitter/@RishiSunak)

Kishwar Desai | A more desi Diwali in Britain; storm over latest...

Yes, so while we revel in Diwali parties (which are now getting on to the calendar), I am making a pledge to bring more...

14 Nov 2022 12:15 AM IST

British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (Photo- AP)

Kishwar Desai | Excitement over Rishi at No. 10 as UK waits for his...

It has been a complete reversal of fortune for Rishi who had so recently lost the race to Ms Truss

30 Oct 2022 9:29 PM IST

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Can Tories run Britain or should Liz start a drive by...

Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, is proving that sometimes it is best to be pragmatic and ditch election promises

16 Oct 2022 9:38 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britains Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Truss-Kwarteng face opprobrium; will rail strike mar...

It is still summer and London is still warm. But it feels like the seventies when London and the country were gripped in...

3 Oct 2022 1:24 AM IST

Members of the public walk past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, inside Westminster Hall, at the Palace of Westminster, in London on early September 17, 2022, where it Lies in State on a Catafalque (James Manning / POOL / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | London queues up for a cause as media watches for...

Perhaps, never again in the history of mankind will so many gather to bid farewell to just one person. At least not in...

19 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST