In my book, ‘DARE’ I have a chapter, ‘Dare to Make and Keep Friends’, but thought that today we could talk about choosing friends!As the old adage says, “A Man is known by the company he keeps” and
Saturday, 18th October, 2025
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Bob’s Banter
As countries open up and we Asians start flying again, I thought it imperative to write this little piece, which I also recommend you take with a pinch of salt, though there is some truth in it.Most Internation
Today, political rallies are all about candidates insulting each other. The days of dignified talk seem to be over, and just when I was beginning to feel sad about the bygone days, I suddenly started realizing
Robert ClementsShe greeted me like we were old friends, purring and wrapping herself round my legs, “Hey,” I said, “I don’t know you!” But from her friendly gestures I realized that, that didn’t mat
Robert ClementsIt was a narrow bridge one climbed from once a lazy station, onto the road above.Elphinstone Road station in Mumbai was hardly used previously, except by mill workers of old, going to work or ret
Here’s something special on Valentine’s Day:We seem to think the best relationships are between like-minded people, but not necessarily at all. Instead of changing your wife or husband to your way of thinki
A few years ago a friend came to me with a brilliant idea which required him resigning from his job and setting up business. The scheme seemed well thought off and it was some years later we met again and I fou
Many decades ago, on long train journeys, my father would take me to the end of the long platform and show me the mighty steam engine which pulled us. “Do you know how it works Bob?” he asked once. I shook
In the gigantic auditorium in Manila, in the Philippines, her voice richer than that of a nightingale filled the hall. We singers stood behind her. We were the choir she sang for, and felt proud, as the audienc
Robert ClementsHe had decided to end his life, and the place he had chosen was the railway track just before the last station, and just after the level crossing. He had given it careful thought, but decided he
The scream came from the bedroom, “Lizard?” I asked casually from the sitting room and found no reply, “Cockroach?” I shouted again, and again hearing no answer rushed to where the wife was, “What’s
Matchmaker, Matchmaker,Make me a matchFind me a find,Catch me a catchMatchmaker, MatchmakerLook through your booksand make me a perfect match. And as the strains of Fiddler On The Roof's, Matchmaker chorus
Just two weeks before the budget, a silver haired lady looked up from her writing as her economist husband approached her somewhere in the capital, “What are you writing this time?” he asked.“Giving the f
Many friends send me pictures of them floating on the Dead Sea! But the Dead Sea is dying! The Dead Sea's water level is declining by more than a metre a year, and its surface area has shrunk by around a third
“A man's rootage is more important than his leafage." President Woodrow Wilson.What people see are your leaves, the outside, your looks, your personality, your social skills, but what they can't see are your
As I watch a bishop being set scot-free by a court which found too little evidence given by the prosecution to convict him, I would like to repeat an old fairy tale, giving it a modern twist, in a twisted world
Wherever she is right now, Mother Teresa, or St Teresa as she is now, must be looking down, not at the celebrations in Rome or Kolkata, but with sadness at the dying, the destitute, the poor and sick all over t
Twas a bullet that tore into the heart of the man, who spoke non-violence to the world!It was same dastardly bullet that revealed, even as we Indians got freedom through his non-violent movement, that there wer
A couple of months ago a school down the road asked me if I would address parents on how to bring up children!For a moment I asked myself as to how I'd been selected for the job, and wondered whether it had any
And as our beautiful flag is unfurled this Republic Day, let your voice and mine, stilled through fear or indifference, flow free, understanding our absolute right to protest, given by a Constitution, whose mak
