AboutArticles by Shaadaab S. Bakht

Desires do age

09 Oct 2025

The cock used to crow at the glimmer of dawn. It was so lovely for him to hear it herald the day. More so because the day then held...

Sweet move, bitter end

18 Sep 2025

THE REPORT: Nestle investors were pitched back into choppy waters recently after the Swiss food giant changed its CEO for the second time in a year, ousting boss Laurent...

Never-ending unhappiness

28 Aug 2025

After a marathon tea session devoted to discussing the Middle East and Ukraine crises, my heavily politicised brothers and I decided to go shopping. The tea session, during which...

Set the young free

07 Aug 2025

In height, he was impressive. In terms of possessions, he was a dwarf. And he looked hideously mauled not by the stinking animal that lives in the jungle, but...

Killing for peace

17 Jul 2025

He was exactly a week into the New Year. Some of the balloons were still fresh in the rooms and the huge courtyard. Some of the unused candles were...

Memories are a great relaxant

26 Jun 2025

A thoroughly bored gentleman decided one morning to go through some letters, which he has been carrying for more than 20 years. He landed on one of them, written...

Bill opens the Gates to his wealth

05 Jun 2025

All of us have heroes, but they keep changing. In school, it was my geography teacher. He was captivatingly anecdotal and a fantastic orator. When he spoke about the...

There is no business like business

15 May 2025

I don’t like the person, who introduced a concept, that was to change forever the way man felt about his possessions and rob the human race of its innocent...

Nobody is a self-made man

17 Apr 2025

No self is ever made by the self alone. The upstartish claim — I am a self-made man — stinks of ingratitude. What about your father and your mother?...

Every drop counts

28 Mar 2025

When the earth shook, it really shook. It was the tsunami. It left tens of thousands without homes, without power, without food and without water. However, destiny, which can...

Shaadaab S. Bakht

Shaadaab S. Bakht, who worked for famous Indian dailies The Telegraph, The Pioneer, The Sentinel and wrote political commentaries for Tehelka.com, is Gulf Today’s Executive Editor.

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