Now the statue of Lincoln stands behind Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square in Britain. How fitting. Your greatest leader, a man who so loathed slavery and segregation and racism stands behind the man who actually built the largest of democracies...

Power without responsibility – that is what the media is so often called. The parallels between India and the US presently are fascinating. The difference is PM Modi is cool calm and collected when it comes to media lies.

When the Rochdale sex grooming gang had their citizenship revoked after 40 years of being British and got deported back to Pakistan, I was able to say all the things which if white people had said it, they would have been called racist, but...

I am so angry. I’ve just been shown the messages my sister-in-law received from ‘men’ on Shaadi.com. You would think the clue is in the name of the website – ‘Shaadi’ – marriage. Not ‘quick hook up for sex’. 

Did you see the parents of British Pakistani boxer Amir Khan on TV? Or his wife? Both were arguing their values are the right ones. The hatred and animosity has boiled over to UK TV, Pakistani TV and very much in the public eye.

Last week, I met up with my old College – St Anne’s, Oxford. We at the University are working on strategies to get more students from India, especially those without privilege, but with ability and talent, to apply...pass it on please. For all...

I’ve just returned from the visit of the UK PM to India. And having been in the room – I have to tell you – I wonder whether most journalists and commentators just make things up before such visits, during them, or after them.

Live on air on BBC in front of 300 million viewers worldwide I scrunched up newspapers. I was so angry about a whole host of press stories. I hate press sensationisation; headlines for grabbing readers, but which are exaggerated and so are basically...



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