AboutArticles by Shaadaab S. Bakht

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...

I can never laugh about predictions

25 Feb 2021

When I tell people that I seriously believe that some animals can see trouble coming and some human beings can predict the future they laugh. But I can’t. Let me...

Mistakes are normal, but some can ruin us

05 Feb 2021

My friend, displaying a rare bout of aggressive or maybe arrogant energy, triggered by success and youth that fallaciously gag logic, committed a huge wrong. An act that...

He laid the right rules

30 Jan 2021

The new century had just entered its 14th year when catastrophe struck the Taryam family and all who considered their patriarch, Dr Abdullah Omran Taryam, their benefactor. It was...

Let lives shine

15 Jan 2021

Men have bungled, let women rule. We were given an hour to prepare our speeches on the motion at a university contest. Six of us were asked to defend the...

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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