Rakhee Mansukhani

Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Unputdownable. Writer. Foodie. Word-lover. UAE soul. This is where my chaos finds clarity.

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Diminishing materials collapse of old building

Diminishing materials collapse of old building

Diminishing materials collapse of old building

The building right in front of my house in Bur Dubai is maybe about 25 years old and it has been abandoned for about four or five years. All the tenants have vacated the building and only two shops are lit up and operating there. It’s located right b...

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Check before you Park

Check before you Park

Check before you Park

Gulf News reader Rakhee Mansukhani came across this vehicle outside a shopping mall in Dubai. She said: “I spotted this car in the parking lot of a mall on Shaikh Zayed Road. This car’s driver seemed to be so desperate to park in this spot that he or...

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Umm Al Quwain petrol station closed for business, open for parking

Umm Al Quwain petrol station closed for business, open for parking

Umm Al Quwain petrol station closed for business, open for parking

A petrol station that has been closed for a long time has turned into a shaded parking space for a few cars along King Faisal street in Umm Al Quwain (as shown in photograph).With limited shaded parking space and petrol stations going dry, this behav...

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Polluted Ras Al Khaimah’s Ghaleila coastline

Polluted Ras Al Khaimah’s Ghaleila coastline

Polluted Ras Al Khaimah’s Ghaleila coastline

Ras Al Khaimah is well known as the most beautiful Julphur city. Recently, it has developed as the Khuzam area, with various hotels and water parks such as Al Hamra Village and Iceland water park.But the most beautiful coastline of Ghaleila in Ras Al...

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Building abandoned for 6 years but not demolished

Building abandoned for 6 years but not demolished

Building abandoned for 6 years but not demolished

On September 14, 2012, Gulf News published my community report about an abandoned building in Bur Dubai. More than a year later the building still remains, falling apart brick by brick.The new Al Fahidi Souk, which is adjacent to this building, is no...

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It’s all in your mind..!!

It’s all in your mind..!!

It’s all in your mind..!!

Mindset, the established set of attitudes held by someone.Yes, that’s right. it’s all in your mind, the will power of good over evil, Every idea (good or bad) starts in our mind. It’s we, human beings who need to understand the dept of this before de...

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Who’s the Culprit?

Who’s the Culprit?

Who’s the Culprit?

I’m the culprit, I am the victim, I’m the sin, I’m the sinner, I’m used, I am abused.I have divided the World, Clothes, Food, Colour, Flower, Festival & Language. I have divided the World into caste, creed & little like these.I was supposed t...

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Terminate Bigotry

Terminate Bigotry

Terminate Bigotry

In 1959, a Bollywood movie named Dhool Ka Phool (Illegitimate Child) was released. The story revolves around a Muslim bringing up a “Illegitimate” Hindu child. Which featured a classic song “Tu Hindu banega na Musalman banega, insaan k...

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Oh! But still I am the house-breaker a divorcee

Oh! But still I am the house-breaker a divorcee

Oh! But still I am the house-breaker a divorcee

Why is “divorce” considered a taboo or an abuse to woman but a praise for a man. It’s always the woman’s fault and a man’s pride. Thousands of questions are asked by her parents, siblings and friends. Oh! You are divorcee, a house-breaker it’s d...

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Open letter to all Mother’s

Open letter to all Mother’s

Open letter to all Mother’s

Mother is born when a child is. We, women, don’t learn in our mother’s womb how to take care of a baby but with time and situation, a new Mother learns it. There are different and yet difficult situations mothers come across from the day a child is b...

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Period Leave

Period Leave

Period Leave

The most talked about and trending topic “PERIOD LEAVE“All thanks to Zomato to give paid period leave to their women employees. But, ironically, I think we are already too late? Shouldn’t this be applicable to school girls too?I remember the onset of...

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Accidental Inspiration

Accidental Inspiration

Accidental Inspiration

Life is full of uncertainties; you don’t know what secret lies in tomorrow. Everything happens, happens for a reason, and happens for good. Happened to me too, overnight my life changed I became single again. Cried, yelled, and fought did everyt...

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Is Alopecia Areata is curable

Is Alopecia Areata is curable

Is Alopecia Areata is curable

This is my real story; I got treated for alopecia areata. Yes, that’s right you read it correctly. There are 3types of alopecia areata; alopecia areata, alopecia areata totalis, and alopecia areata universalis. Alopecia can happen to anyone...

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