ON MARTYRS’ DAY There was a deep sense of unadmitted anxiety at the root of all thoughts, but there was also an equally deep sense of forbearance as the men...
ON ENVIRONMENT 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...
ON CITY DEVELOPMENT Madhav Prasad — jettisoned by a world that’s never tired of touting social uplift as its driving force and the cornerstone of a principled universe —...
ON COMMUNAL HARMONY It bothers me because it bothers all, all who have been witnessing men being beaten up by men over issues, which basically are non-issues. It...
ON SELF-HELP BOOKS Some of us love self-help books because they tell us what we want to hear. But they are often far removed from reality. At least I...
LAW ON DIVORCE She got married to be happy, but joy didn’t recognise her. Her wish to write a hymn of love turned out to be a reluctant dirge....
ON LIFE I relish, and with enormous delight, the fact that life follows no roadmap. Or at least it is not known to us. Imagine knowing about your miseries...
ON UNITED KINGDOM Nothing leaves us as vulnerable as adversity does. It leaves us with a set of eyes, which stops seeing reason and a mind that turns incorrigibly...
ON THE UAE The United Arab Emirates’ unflinching faith in the Prophet — who took the entire civilisational process under his wing and made it bow to God’s ways...
ON CONVENTIONAL WISDOM My friend and I read similar books, gorged on the same type of food and did what the heart said. We allowed it to play the compass....
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.