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Book Review | Train of nostalgia to ’60s Bombay

Book Review | Train of nostalgia to ’60s Bombay

Farrukh Dhondy, author, playwright, columnist and screenplay writer among other interesting things was born in...

6 July 2024 12:14 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Does African link colour attitudes of Indians in British politics?

Farrukh Dhondy | Does African link colour attitudes of Indians in...

“O Bachchoo is it true that everything’s been said By the prophets and poets, now long dead? Must we now...

1 April 2023 12:49 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | On â€˜truthâ€™ in the Age of Internet: How Wikipedia...

“O come with old Bachchoo and leave the lot Of Panini and Pandurang forgot Let Qutb build his minars as he will ...

11 Feb 2023 12:02 AM IST

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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 11:47 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 1:20 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 12:29 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

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 2:01 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)

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

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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

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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

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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 4:40 AM IST