AboutArticles by Shaadaab S. Bakht

The invaluable sorry

11 Aug 2022

Agreed, the fabric of sorry isn’t curative in character, but the word is invaluable because it is an unquestionable darn. True, sorry can’t undo losses, but it can make them...

Unfailing leadership

21 Jul 2022

The beauty of promise is that it gives birth to living man’s most powerful driving force, hope, which keeps our universe ticking. Therefore, we heard, we read and re-read the...

Rhetoric sells

30 Jun 2022

Most politicians are like some beautiful women. The exterior does the trick. Qualities really don’t matter. Such politicians are free from the extraordinary burden of seeking education, free from worrying...

Save the irreplaceable drop

09 Jun 2022

It’s morning. A young man, dressed in a pair of shorts and a vest, arrives at a roadside tap. He places his bucket below the flowing water, which is cold...

People’s leader

19 May 2022

Where there was thirst, sweet water has been flowing; where there was painful paucity, delicious dishes have become a regular affair; where there were unimpressive houses, picture postcard dwellings have...

Books are indispensable

28 Apr 2022

Why books? Because they help us develop a vision of life, guide us and never fail us. I read my Holy Book. I stood corrected. I stood armed for life....

We age, our feelings don’t

07 Apr 2022

We age, our feelings, our dreams don’t. They merely slip into hibernation under the enormous burden of circumstances, which are such a regrettable corollary to human existence. My friend just...

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:...

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.

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