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The fire is spreading

The fire is spreading

09 Jan 2020

ON PREJUDICE Life, long or short, is a walk. And I was chosen by destiny to walk through the incredible India. And I am very happy about that. The...

It’ll not be fair for leaders to play with pets and watch on TV migrants battling for water

It’ll not be fair for leaders to play with pets and watch on TV migrants battling for water

31 Dec 2019

At the stroke of midnight the pages of our diaries changed, but for some they didn’t. They remained the same. They read the same: struggle, tears and empty promises. They...

Can’t prove love through documents

Can’t prove love through documents

26 Dec 2019

ON INDIAN CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT There was a sense of swirling unease because he hadn’t slept for days following a week of communal clashes in which many were injured....

Wishes grow old too | Shaadaab S. Bakht

Wishes grow old too | Shaadaab S. Bakht

13 Dec 2019

ON AGE Life, for him, was like a green courtesan walking by and in the process leaving behind a waft — bordering on the amorous — which lingers on...

The lavish face of Emirati freedom

The lavish face of Emirati freedom

01 Dec 2019

ON NATIONAL DAY December 2, 1971. On this day freedom — lavish life’s most succulent face — unfolded for the Emiratis. Undeterred by an unsparing weather and an equally...

The sun shall never set on the Emirati martyrs

The sun shall never set on the Emirati martyrs

01 Dec 2019

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...

We don’t need Hospitals, we need trees

We don’t need Hospitals, we need trees

29 Nov 2019

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...

Forget Paris when you are in Kolkata

Forget Paris when you are in Kolkata

14 Nov 2019

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 —...

Hindus manage mosque

Hindus manage mosque

19 Sep 2019

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 bothers...

Experience rules

Experience rules

05 Sep 2019

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...

Shaadaab S. Bakht

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.