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Indians not a chance breeze

05 Mar 2020

ON CITIZENSHIP LAW A man can be beaten to death. In fact, he has been. But what can’t be beaten to death is his belief. He was buried, but...

Food before faith

21 Feb 2020

ON DELHI ELECTION The bell tolls. Who is behind it? When asked a Delhi slum dweller went on to say, “I didn’t ring it because I am too hungry...

Malaise of bonded labour

06 Feb 2020

ON THE HELPLESS Our bus rolled into Dhampur, India. It was winter and just before midnight. The temperature was around three degrees Centigrade. I wanted to check out on...

His door was flung open to every troubled visitor

29 Jan 2020

Truth never fails. And of that universal conviction are born men of honour, who hitch their destinies to truth, in return for a life of ethical fulfilment and prosperity. And...

Philanthropy really matters

23 Jan 2020

ON SHARING Some people, especially the morally coarse, are happy to hitch their destinies to materially galloping values, in return for a life of ceaseless luxury. But...

The fire is spreading

09 Jan 2020

ON PREJUDICE Life, long or short, is a walk. And I was chosen by destiny to walk through the incredible India. And I am very happy about that. The...

It’ll not be fair for leaders to play with pets and watch on TV migrants battling for water

31 Dec 2019

At the stroke of midnight the pages of our diaries changed, but for some they didn’t. They remained the same. They read the same: struggle, tears and empty promises. They...

Can’t prove love through documents

26 Dec 2019

ON INDIAN CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT There was a sense of swirling unease because he hadn’t slept for days following a week of communal clashes in which many were injured....

Wishes grow old too | Shaadaab S. Bakht

13 Dec 2019

ON AGE Life, for him, was like a green courtesan walking by and in the process leaving behind a waft — bordering on the amorous — which lingers on...

The lavish face of Emirati freedom

01 Dec 2019

ON NATIONAL DAY December 2, 1971. On this day freedom — lavish life’s most succulent face — unfolded for the Emiratis. Undeterred by an...

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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