AboutArticles by Shaadaab Bakht

Some names do leave us amused

10 Aug 2023

I used to have a colleague. He was born in London. He was raised in London, worked for a while in the United Arab Emirates, and then went back to...

Hatred stinks

20 Jul 2023

Attacker, If you have the courage of your conviction and if you seriously believe that you belong to one of the world’s most progressive societies and if you, like the...

I wish there was nothing called change

08 Jun 2023

I, like most ordinary mortals, hate many things about life. One of them is its changing nature. The trigger for this discussion is the following page from my friend’s diary....

Not lazy, they aren’t materialistic

18 May 2023

A good number of people, including a large number from the province of Bengal, strongly feel that the people of the state are very warm, very hospitable and compellingly intelligent...

Loneliness can only be fought

27 Apr 2023

The demands of modern life, nurtured to their abhorrent health by unrelenting materialism, invariably leave us self-centred. And the natural fallout of being selfish is that we, consciously or unconsciously,...

Wrong-doers aren’t born

06 Apr 2023

It was the Kolkata of the eighties. We went to watch an Amitabh Bachchan film on a crowded Sunday and ended up buying tickets at a premium. The well-behaved seller...

Politicians must answer refugees

16 Mar 2023

He goes to bed each night hoping for a better tomorrow, but lost bliss is like a plucked flower. He had a house where joy lived in the shape of...

The quest continues

23 Feb 2023

A brilliant university mate of mine has become a monk. He was very wealthy, but that wasn’t enough to hold him back. He donated most of his wealth to the...

Leave the Trees Alone

15 Dec 2022

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 brushing...

Let’s share what we have

24 Nov 2022

The rage took off in the angry eyes of the man, sped through his face in scary doses, to land on his lips. A torrent of embarrassing expletives followed and...

Shaadaab 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.

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