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Can’t prove love through documents

Can’t prove love through documents

26 Dec 2019

ON INDIAN CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT There was a sense of swirling unease because he hadn’t slept for days following a week of communal clashes in which many were injured....

Wishes grow old too | Shaadaab S. Bakht

Wishes grow old too | Shaadaab S. Bakht

13 Dec 2019

ON AGE Life, for him, was like a green courtesan walking by and in the process leaving behind a waft — bordering on the amorous — which lingers on...

The lavish face of Emirati freedom

The lavish face of Emirati freedom

01 Dec 2019

ON NATIONAL DAY December 2, 1971. On this day freedom — lavish life’s most succulent face — unfolded for the Emiratis. Undeterred by an unsparing weather and an equally...

The sun shall never set on the Emirati martyrs

The sun shall never set on the Emirati martyrs

01 Dec 2019

ON MARTYRS’ DAY There was a deep sense of unadmitted anxiety at the root of all thoughts, but there was also an equally deep sense of forbearance as the...

We don’t need Hospitals, we need trees

We don’t need Hospitals, we need trees

29 Nov 2019

ON ENVIRONMENT It used to be such a pleasure when the wind blew. When it blew through thousands of its leaves and dozens of its branches. Its tip was...

Forget Paris when you are in Kolkata

Forget Paris when you are in Kolkata

14 Nov 2019

ON CITY DEVELOPMENT Madhav Prasad — jettisoned by a world that’s never tired of touting social uplift as its driving force and the cornerstone of a principled universe —...

Hindus manage mosque

Hindus manage mosque

19 Sep 2019

ON COMMUNAL HARMONY It bothers me because it bothers all, all who have been witnessing men being beaten up by men over issues, which basically are non-issues. It bothers...

Experience rules

Experience rules

05 Sep 2019

ON SELF-HELP BOOKS Some of us love self-help books because they tell us what we want to hear. But they are often far removed from reality. At least I...

Some Indian women see it as a relief

Some Indian women see it as a relief

22 Aug 2019

LAW ON DIVORCE She got married to be happy, but joy didn’t recognise her. Her wish to write a hymn of love turned out to be a reluctant dirge....

Succulent Uncertainty

Succulent Uncertainty

26 Jul 2019

ON LIFE I relish, and with enormous delight, the fact that life follows no roadmap. Or at least it is not known to us. Imagine knowing about your miseries...

Shaadaab S. Bakht

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.