AboutArticles by Shaadaab S. Bakht

People’s leader

19 May 2022

Where there was thirst, sweet water has been flowing; where there was painful paucity, delicious dishes have become a regular affair; where there were unimpressive houses, picture postcard dwellings have...

Books are indispensable

28 Apr 2022

Why books? Because they help us develop a vision of life, guide us and never fail us. I read my Holy Book. I stood corrected. I stood armed for life....

We age, our feelings don’t

07 Apr 2022

We age, our feelings, our dreams don’t. They merely slip into hibernation under the enormous burden of circumstances, which are such a regrettable corollary to human existence. My friend...

The malaise of bonded labour

24 Feb 2022

Our bus rolled into Kalagarh, India. It was winter and just before midnight. I wanted to check out on the foodstuff being hawked at the bus stand. Piping hot...

Don’t make kids pay for our excesses

03 Feb 2022

Whenever I see a picture like this I seriously wonder whether we are “fallen angels” or “risen apes.” If we could have allowed the degeneration of human lives to the...

Dr Abdullah’s endless quest for truth

30 Jan 2022

The extraordinariness of his vision of life lay in his in-born refusal to see the ordinary man as a part-time human being. It’s a trait that has only one...

The individual is the king

13 Jan 2022

If you wish to really enjoy life in all its shades then there should be a very clear and willing suspension of respect for social mores. The mores have...

The tramp reminds me of Shakespeare

23 Dec 2021

Every time I see a tramp I am reminded of William Shakespeare. Both of them understood life better than all of us. The great English playwright calls it a...

In UAE commitment beats the tardy

02 Dec 2021

Undeterred by an unsparing weather pattern and an equally heartless sun a set of august leaders, headed by the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Al Nahyan, decided to entirely revolutionise what...

Unfair to minorities

11 Nov 2021

Muslims, Muslims, Muslims. In the last ten years or so, I haven’t been to a dinner party, to a meeting of proven intellectuals, to a respectable political gathering where people...

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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