AboutArticles by Shaadaab S. Bakht

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...

Fight against pandemic must go on

12 Aug 2021

The demonic prowess of catastrophe is piercing and unbending. But there are a few who employ the courage of their conviction and free-flowing confidence to stand up to its unrelenting...

It's time we fixed it

22 Jul 2021

The deep-rooted puritanical belief that human suffering is always the fallout of human misdemeanour is misleading, if not entirely wrong. It is merely, one feels, aimed at making coffee table...

Dilip Kumar turns immortal, Modi and Imran lead tributes

08 Jul 2021

If death had had the luxury of breaks, it would have definitely taken one on Wednesday. The king is dead. And he did commit a wrong. He left...

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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