• Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Demons of the Punjab

Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill

By: Keerthi Mohan

by Amit Roy SOME mean-spirited commentators are still carping about the current series of Doctor Who, mainly on the grounds that the Time Lady’s assistants, Yasmin (Yaz) Khan (Mandip Gill) and Ryan Sinclair (Tosin Cole), are not Caucasian. They say they do not like the story lines, but I suspect what they are really objecting to is the diversity in the casting. Maybe the solution is to have a little more diversity among the commentators. The latest episode of Doctor Who – Demons of the Punjab – was written by Vinay Patel, who was also responsible for the searing Murdered…

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