Bikram Vohra
Khaleej Times
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Past articles by Bikram:
Covid-19: 930 is a dangerous trend, stay six feet apart
You think they are joking when the authorities tell you to safe distance? → Read More
Media on trial: India's love affair with trivia is dangerous
In later years social anthropologists will speak of an India whose intellectual synapses were singed to a crisp by a cacophony of noise in a script dict... → Read More
KT Comment: The folly of not learning Arabic
When I look back over these 35 years, I think of the rank foolishness and shortsighted limitations I placed on myself by not doing the obvious. → Read More
KT COMMENT: The folly of not learning Arabic
When I look back over these 35 years, I think of the rank foolishness and shortsighted limitations I placed on myself by not doing the obvious. → Read More
Coronavirus: Do not tolerate those who endanger us
Wear that mask, use the gloves, use the sanitiser. If you feel unwell go get checked. → Read More
Coronavirus: India clears air with Arab world
That the vast majority of India's 1.3 billion people have no interest in hating one another on a religious basis is a fact that seldom gets an airing. → Read More
Coronavirus: Not yet ready to step out into the world
I have straining at the leash to open the gate and go out into the world and now that I can suddenly I am not ready. → Read More
Combating coronavirus: Parents and their singular mission today
We are getting a lot of this stuff about adding a new and exciting dimension to this stay-home dictate. But for most of us, nothing will change. → Read More
Coronavirus chainmails: Time to return them to the sender
Many years ago I vowed to never forward these letters because I silently curse the person who sent it to me and I don't want someone to curse me when th... → Read More
Stay home and try the online party therapy, it works
Don't mistake the #StayHome order as a command to be lonely. → Read More
Coronavirus: Time to keep up that morale and be positive
We are all in the same boat. So find comfort in numbers and keep the faith. → Read More
Covid-19 creates a new you
Whatever the role you have assumed in this exhausting crisis, it is an insightful thought that this is who you really are. → Read More
Caught in the coronavirus crossfire? Have faith
It's a distressing situation when family members are stuck in different countries. For now, all one can do is be grateful that they are safe. → Read More
Coronavirus: A horrific situation we never prepared our kids for
If adult patience is rendering place to weariness and a sort of nibbling exhaustion, what is going through the mind of that fertile imaginative five-yea... → Read More
Stop whining about your loss of comfort. Smell the coffee, it kills
Your comparative discomfort as compared to what Herculean efforts the authorities are making to keep you safe is of such little consequence. You are not... → Read More
Covid-19: #StayHome is no reason to put on weight
If anything, the virus has nibbled away at our appetites. → Read More
Covid-19: What will the new normal be?
'Don't come near me' in the present context is no longer seen as bad manners. → Read More
Covid-19: So much for peacocks at the traffic lights
The earth is shaking less because we are not moving. I get it. We do need to wake up and be a lot friendlier to this incredible planet. → Read More
Covid-19: #StayHome and get the tune right
Music, the best fallback in times of deep distress. → Read More
Coronavirus: Oh for a hug and handshake, when will normal return?
How we long to do the things we took so much for granted. → Read More