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

The streets of London are decked with Christmas buntings, spectacular lights and bunches of berries and holly as music jingles at every roadside corner — and one could never imagine that the country is now heading into a winter of strikes. * It is not as though the Sunak administration is having an easy time — apart from the strikes, there is also restlessness growing within the Tory Party, as the financial plan set out by the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and PM Rishi Sunak may have stabilised the markets but it has not pleased the country or the party. It isn’t visible as yet — so now everyone is concerned that the high costs of living and the upcoming strikes mean more dark clouds. The exhibition is abundant with the various texts written about him and his exploits — including the Greek Alexander Romance, published 750 years ago, and which became the primary source for many of the later writers.

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Kishwar Desai | King's German trip apt; as Covid tally climbing, boosters awaited

Deccan Chronicle

The Easter break means school holidays — which means getting away with or without kids! Whether it is the high price of tickets, or unbearable queues at the security desks, it might just be time to take walks along the Thames and get a deck chair on South Bank for sunny days, and pretend one is at the Riviera or …

1 year, 11 months ago

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

Deccan Chronicle

After a rather gloomy Christmas where strikes where the dominating theme, we are now reeling into a New Year where further disruptions can be expected. Again like the story forty plus years ago, we have inflation and a new Prime Minister who has to face the music. Charles the Third will be coronated in the New Year when the whole …

2 years, 1 month ago

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

Deccan Chronicle

Yes, so while we revel in Diwali parties, I am making a pledge to bring more sarees back to London. Recently at the Indian High Commission, with the charming new high commissioner, Vikram Doraiswami and his wife, Indians were all wearing desi clothes! Has Rishi Sunak, the new Prime Minister also contributed towards this self confidence? It was the Indian …

2 years, 8 months ago

Kishwar Desai | XR, traffic jams back on streets; BoJo in Kiev is butt of laughter

Deccan Chronicle

But that means April showers, high winds and occasional sunshine. But this time as they squat or lie on the streets — disrupting traffic around Oxford Street, or around Hyde Park— and it was like one large group of protesters on a picnic, as many had brought their lunch along. Off he went, therefore, to meet the Ukrainian President Volodymyr …

2 years, 11 months ago

Kishwar Desai | Market defeats â€˜mildâ€™ Omicron on â€˜warmestâ€™ New Yearâ€™s Day

Deccan Chronicle

Well, if I didn’t know it was Christmas — it would have difficult to believe it! It was the warmest we had ever known it to be, and even New Year’s Day passed off at a glorious 15 degrees, with bright sunshine. Though the figures keep climbing, and over one lakh people have been infected daily — the only plus …

3 years, 11 months ago

Kishwar Desai | Long lockdown defeats Britons; Spursâ€™ shot in the arm for soccer fans

Deccan Chronicle

So not only is it very cold but the forecast is also bleak. Despite the tough stance of home secretary Priti Patel about fighting crime and immigrants, it turns out the Home Office has managed to wipe out 150,000 people’s arrest records and with it much sensitive information — their fingerprints, DNA and arrest history. The FA Cup is a …

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