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Maradona, commitment personified

25 Dec 2020

Hardship fetters. It makes our dreams rot in the man-sanctioned swamp of discrimination and not many can extricate themselves from the quagmire. But some, who are born into the cesspool,...

Class is man’s biggest blunder

04 Dec 2020

God created man. Man committed a blunder. He created class, the root of all unease. I came in as a human being, they made me a Muslim, then an...

Sharjah’s world of words

13 Nov 2020

Whenever I feel that I am being unfairly treated by someone, I don’t grumble or foul-mouth. I fall back on Immanuel Kant’s words. The German philosopher said, “Out...

The noble WFP deserves the Nobel

22 Oct 2020

It was the Calcutta of the 70s. There was a knock on the door, but I was too lazy to react. However, I reacted to the second one because not...

Tomorrow it could be us

01 Oct 2020

The world of politics is like a bog. Everything stinks. The kid’s photograph reminded me of that. Forsaken by fate and victimised by an aggregate of hideously self-serving power-drunk politicians,...

What a pleasure memories don’t die

11 Sep 2020

The quantum of pleasure in his life is declining fast. At times he feels bliss is about to stop breathing. The gentleman, thoroughly bored, decided one morning to unmask himself...

Lebanon: Infinite woes

20 Aug 2020

As if the rampaging barbarity of COVID-19 wasn’t enough, as if the killer disease’s infinite assaults weren’t enough, the country, led by an irresponsible leadership, had to invite its complete...

Life is a long wait

23 Jul 2020

ON BLISS Life doesn’t give us happiness. It merely makes us wait for it. One wait leads to another. One small wait leads to a big wait. In other...

Lebanese barter clothes for food

09 Jul 2020

The sewer of human suffering continues to overflow as we stand and watch. Only the place keeps changing, not the depth of the suffering. Permit me to share with you...

Stop it. God didn’t mention colour

26 Jun 2020

Dogs do not trade in dogs but humans do. Yet, they are called beasts and we aren’t, they are leashed and we aren’t, unalloyed bias. But I am not surprised...

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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