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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 Indian fries are a pleasure when the temperature is low.
Whenever I see a picture like this I seriously wonder whether we are “fallen angels” or “risen apes.”
He strode across life with telling effect because he strode with conviction. And that conviction was the heartwarming consequence of a principled journey that we can safely attribute to the richness of the Emirati tradition and his unblemished upbringing.
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 to be done away with, a path of your own has to be created, a heart-pumping passionate vocabulary of your own has to be
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 meaningless idiot’s tale. The tramp’s response to life indicates that he too thinks it’s an idiot’s
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,
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
Greed is definitely bad, but certainly not money. Let’s go for it. I tell youngsters that one should go for money, but take the right path.
Insatiable libidinal adventurism, made filthier by in-born male fallibility, contributed gradually, but irreversibly to the commodification of women over centuries.
It is hard to believe that a young man blows himself up just to go down as a martyr. Permit me to state that the lure of martyrdom doesn’t have that kind of depth.
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.