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Farrukh Dhondy

The tale of two cities’ underground railway

The numbers multiply when one talks of the history of the underground railways that integrate the cities.
Section: Analysis  | Friday, January 21, 2011 2:46 IST

The wheeling and dealing of coalition politics

Pacts always boiled down to who was offered which gaadi from which maximum influence or corrupt money could be milked.
Section: Analysis  | Thursday, January 6, 2011 23:24 IST

Lessons I learnt from my first Christmas Eve

My first Christmas in Britain came as something of a surprise. I was at Cambridge University and had spent two and a half months of the first term settling into college, England, new acquaintance and writing letters to India.
Section: Analysis  | Thursday, December 23, 2010 21:54 IST

Exports not worth bragging about

Phone calls, insurance services, even medical tourism sell the skills of the country.
Section: Analysis  | Friday, December 10, 2010 2:51 IST

The Kohinoor may prove to be a curse for Prince William

Prince William has finally asked Kate Middleton to marry him. They have been ‘going out’, though that entails quite a lot of staying in, for eight years.
Section: Analysis  | Friday, November 26, 2010 3:36 IST

Britain’s ‘racial’ baggage delaying adoptions

There is a notion in liberal Britain that we live in a ‘racist’ society and that one’s racial identity is a central determining factor in one’s social being and hence, psychological comfort and happiness.
Section: Analysis  | Thursday, November 11, 2010 22:33 IST

It’s always about the money, honey

The Mediterranean in autumn, has restaurants open to the mild elements and to the street, which is quiet, though not unpeopled. We are the lone customers at Ali Baba with no 40 thieves evident.
Section: Analysis  | Friday, October 29, 2010 3:55 IST

Realising lesson of life after being stuck in a lift

Even those of us who didn’t believe in God agreed that we should thank him for small mercies.
Section: Analysis  | Friday, October 15, 2010 0:30 IST

The C'Wealth Games is a perfect example of our class structure

The consternation, with TV footage and really disgusting photographs, has concentrated on the squalor of the unfinished accommodation which the athletes will occupy.
Section: Analysis  | Friday, October 1, 2010 2:55 IST

New technologies and potential addictions

Einstein famously said that ‘God doesn’t play dice’. He meant that the order and predictability of the natural universe negated the idea of luck or chance.
Section: Analysis  | Friday, September 17, 2010 3:16 IST
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