AboutArticles by Shaadaab S. Bakht

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...

Unbendable faith

06 Mar 2025

The middle-aged gentleman, targeted by some chicken-hearted people, is not bending his head because he has ceaseless faith in his faith, which is unbendable. It burst out from the...

Don’t underestimate your vote

13 Feb 2025

The people of India should never allow the dormancy of democracy because it is the last and most powerful weapon in the hands of the governed to fix the...

There’s no substitute for good food

23 Jan 2025

“Are you getting enough vitamins?” For the vast majority of people, the inevitable answer to this question is ‘hell no’...Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) shows...

The beginning is always beautiful

03 Jan 2025

Quite a number of young men find Communism irresistible, but as they move deeper into their relationships disappointment invariably sets in. I was no different. It is so because...

Misrepresentation of faith

12 Dec 2024

I have been told, obliquely and bluntly, that my faith is not progressive. Not once, not twice, but several times by several people and on several occasions, I have...

Stress is invincible

21 Nov 2024

When monarchs fail to fight off the tyranny of unease, what are commoners. In the case of kings it is authority that’s responsible for the unease as aptly put...

Tomorrow doesn’t have a face

06 Nov 2024

I belong to the hoi polloi, therefore, I have a hoi polloi wish. And that is peace so that every day everybody doesn’t talk of inflation and everybody doesn’t...

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.