AboutArticles by Shaadaab Bakht

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...

The darker it got, the brighter they became

01 Jul 2021

When grief explodes the ordinary crouch, the extraordinary take it by the horns, and see a newness of purpose in taking on full blast the unrelenting assault. They create light...

Mr Reporter, apologies don’t uncoffin losses

11 Jun 2021

I am a journalist and I know that some members of my fraternity do exaggerate, do distort, do fictionalise, do sensationalise and do not always speak the truth. They, like...

Coal miners fuel faith

20 May 2021

Knowledge undoubtedly is power, my friend believes. And I fully agree with the age-old contention. In keeping with that standpoint, he invests a good deal of his money in books....

We are all creations of words

29 Apr 2021

If we didn’t have words we wouldn’t have had this life of ours. We are all creations of words. If man hadn’t invented words I would have been like the...

Kill the silent killer

08 Apr 2021

Avinash Bhaduri, a brilliant writer and a warm human being and an incredible host, has been fighting poor health and a poorer life. The cause: drugs. The fallout: separation from...

Only tolerance counts

18 Mar 2021

I was a schoolboy and intolerant. I still don’t know why it was the way it was. I used to land up fighting over insignificant issues. I often used to...

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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