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The malaise of bonded labour

24 Feb 2022

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...

Don’t make kids pay for our excesses

03 Feb 2022

Whenever I see a picture like this I seriously wonder whether we are “fallen angels” or “risen apes.” If we could have allowed the degeneration of human lives to the...

Dr Abdullah’s endless quest for truth

30 Jan 2022

The extraordinariness of his vision of life lay in his in-born refusal to see the ordinary man as a part-time human being. It’s a trait that has only one fallout:...

The individual is the king

13 Jan 2022

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...

The tramp reminds me of Shakespeare

23 Dec 2021

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...

In UAE commitment beats the tardy

02 Dec 2021

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, decided to entirely revolutionise what...

Unfair to minorities

11 Nov 2021

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 where people...

Money, a great palliative

14 Oct 2021

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. We should work hard...

We mustn’t compromise on women’s progress

23 Sep 2021

Insatiable libidinal adventurism, made filthier by in-born male fallibility, contributed gradually, but irreversibly to the commodification of women over centuries. And once that horrible and destructive transformation took place there...

Deprivation triggers terrorism

02 Sep 2021

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...

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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