AboutArticles by Shaadaab S. Bakht

Kill the silent killer

08 Apr 2021

Avinash Bhaduri, a brilliant writer and a warm human being and an incredible host, has been fighting poor health and a poorer life. The cause: drugs. The fallout: separation from...

Only tolerance counts

18 Mar 2021

I was a schoolboy and intolerant. I still don’t know why it was the way it was. I used to land up fighting over insignificant issues. I often used to...

I can never laugh about predictions

25 Feb 2021

When I tell people that I seriously believe that some animals can see trouble coming and some human beings can predict the future they laugh. But I can’t. Let me...

Mistakes are normal, but some can ruin us

05 Feb 2021

My friend, displaying a rare bout of aggressive or maybe arrogant energy, triggered by success and youth that fallaciously gag logic, committed a huge wrong. An act that cost him...

He laid the right rules

30 Jan 2021

The new century had just entered its 14th year when catastrophe struck the Taryam family and all who considered their patriarch, Dr Abdullah Omran Taryam, their benefactor. It was...

Let lives shine

15 Jan 2021

Men have bungled, let women rule. We were given an hour to prepare our speeches on the motion at a university contest. Six of us were asked to defend...

Maradona, commitment personified

25 Dec 2020

Hardship fetters. It makes our dreams rot in the man-sanctioned swamp of discrimination and not many can extricate themselves from the quagmire. But some, who are born into the...

Class is man’s biggest blunder

04 Dec 2020

God created man. Man committed a blunder. He created class, the root of all unease. I came in as a human being, they made me a Muslim, then an...

Sharjah’s world of words

13 Nov 2020

Whenever I feel that I am being unfairly treated by someone, I don’t grumble or foul-mouth. I fall back on Immanuel Kant’s words. The German philosopher said, “Out of...

The noble WFP deserves the Nobel

22 Oct 2020

It was the Calcutta of the 70s. There was a knock on the door, but I was too lazy to react. However, I reacted to the second one because not...

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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