AboutArticles by Shaadaab S. Bakht

Soul of liberty is the right to choose

15 Oct 2026

The soul of every human stride in the world of politics, in the world of arts and in the world of fashion is liberty. Any civilizational exercise that compromises...

There’s no pride in prejudice

24 Sep 2026

We are all enormously worried as democratic sanity is being torn apart with impunity by the exploitative power of the politics of prejudice. A lot of people have been...

The sharpest of bullets burns out, but the smallest of words rules forever

03 Sep 2026

All wars begin in the mind. They include the war to answer hunger and thirst, to satiate dreams, to win over love, to ensure harmony and, of course, the...

He saw nothing in it

06 Aug 2026

He was 45, tall and alone. He was pleasant. He was affable. Though unkempt most of the time, he went for trendy shoes and clothes. And most important, he...

The joy of trees

16 Jul 2026

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 often seen...

Some words never leave us

04 Jun 2026

Some words, regardless of their source, can do for us what whole libraries can’t. Sounds exaggerated, but permit me to share a couple of pages from my ill-kept notebook...

Dubai worries about all

14 May 2026

When we see a picture, which we do regularly, showing hundreds of men, hundreds of women and hundreds of children, struggling to collect food and drinking water, we really...

Communication is everything

23 Apr 2026

The communicative path of life is strewn with uncertainties. One misstep and the course of your entire life could change. And irreversibly at that. Permit me to discuss an...

Stress has no cure

19 Mar 2026

When monarchs fail to fight off the tyranny of stress, what are commoners? In the case of kings, it is authority that’s responsible for the stress (uneasy lies the...

BNP has to perform

26 Feb 2026

It got cloudy. It really got dark. It began to rain. “You know what? This is the right weather to have smoked rice with fried fish,’’ reacted my grand...

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.