In Lexington, Virginia, lie the mortal remains of a legend, General Stonewall Jackson. General Jackson earned his nickname at the First Battle of Manassas. This was during the American Civil War, the Confederat
Sunday, 19th October, 2025
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Bob’s Banter
The other day an employee of mine showed me his phone worth a huge amount. “But that’s a costly phone!” I said. “With my credit card sir!” he said.And today, that’s what I see; with no money in
The other day I decided to do something a bit wicked, not too naughty to make you stop reading farther, but just a wee bit wicked. I’d often found people leaning across and telling me, when there was about to
The doctor said to a new father, "You have a cute baby.""I bet you say that to all the new parents," smiled the proud daddy."No," he replied, "just to those whose babies really are good-looking.""So what do you
They were holding hands at the next table.I have nothing against holding hands, I've held my own fair share and more during the springtime of my youth, but these two at the next table seemed to have hands meant
“Laughter can conceal a heavy heart; when the laughter ends, the grief remains.” Proverbs 14:13.This actually happened after a session with a group of company executives, where I’d spent almost a day trai
As a writer and journalist, I often had to visit men and women in different leadership positions at their offices. As soon as I was ushered into their offices, the chair on which they sat told me where I stood.
It seemed like a dance of death as the peepul leaf floated down to me, “You poor leaf,” I cried, “Let me get some glue, you know the quick fix type and paste you back to the branch you fell from!”“No!
...When I lose my temper, I lose my reason too;I'm never proud of anything, which angrily I do..The child looked at his father, who red with rage yelled into the phone. "You idiot, d'you know who I am?""Dad.."
Many years ago, a friend of mine who was planning to get married sat with me one evening and discussed the kind of wife he would like to have. “She should be a working woman,” he said very definitely.&
Somewhere in the US, arms manufacturers seemed to be throwing a party. There was the firing of cannon, rifle and pistol shots coming from their estates. The local police were baffled and rode over to see what t
Empty bellied Indians, poor and impoverished looked up at the platform, where a pre-election meeting was going to be held. They clutched their caved in stomachs and waited with anticipated breaths as the contes
Even as most of us strive to send our children to either settle in the US or study there, we are slowly developing an anger towards that country. Maybe it’s because of a visa refusal, and I’m not going into
Something I’m beginning to hear very suddenly, is the government blaming everything on either Nehru, or Gandhiji, or some previous leader. It’s a blame game that doesn’t happen only in the government, it
Something I used to do every morning in Chicago, as I holidayed there, was to sit on the porch with a huge jug of coffee and shamelessly sip time away! I enjoyed the fresh air of the beginning of Fall but also
“Why me?” I cried out, looking up to the sky.It happened many years ago when my wife and I had driven down to the sea side with a group of friends for a holiday. One morning we decided we would go down to t
“Hi!” “Hi! Why are you waiting outside? I thought our meeting to lay out my strategy for your party to win elections was taking place inside?”“Yes, it is, but I thought it would be better if we c
This morning the first piece of news was from a classmate telling me, “He’s gone Bob!”“Who?” I asked.“My brother!” she said, “I’m now on a plane, on the way to attend his funeral!”How terrib
Let’s stop being parrots!Years ago, I had a class master who was very fond of dictating notes. That was okay by me because it was a lot better than listening to his otherwise very boring lectures. But what go
‘He looks so peaceful!’ is often what we hear when we go to pay our past respects at a funeral! Quite often after hearing those words, I wonder what he or she looked like when they were alive: Harried, worr
