This happened on Valentines Day, a few months ago: I had just finished my jog and was sitting on a bench in the park, when a young girl, who had also been jogging came and sat next to me. “Happy Valentines Da
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Bob’s Banter
There’s a big difference between looking out of your window and peeping out, and generally the difference lies in the attitude of the person at the window: Does he or she want to be seen? If she doesn’t wan
Many of us have done something in the past which always makes us feel guilty, and which is also used by others to remind us of that guilt:There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was g
A moneyed friend of mine had just come back from a holiday he’d spent at Mahabalipuram, the temple town a few kilometres from Chennai. Since I’d been there a few times, I’d told him about the carvings, th
A few decades ago, the family doctor reigned supreme! From a common cold to cancer, families sought his advice. His word was the gospel. His clinics were full.His diagnosis was good, his manner amiable, but ala
Was sipping tea in the back seat of my car when my driver suddenly braked, throwing scalding hot tea from my glass all over me, "Sorry sir," he said as he looked in the rear view mirror. I rubbed the hot steamy
T’was a fancy restaurant we went to, the waiter not only had a stiff upper lip, but same surgeon had turned his nose up in the air too. “What will you have sir?” he smirked.“Wine!” I said“Which one?
In a doctor’s clinic a worried patient lay on the doctor’s couch, “What you need,” said the psychiatrist, “is to get away to a peaceful place, where you can enjoy beauty for awhile, like a…”“An
‘..DNA of all Indians are same, irrespective of religion..’ RSS Chief, Mohan Bhagat.How easy it is for us to voice words such as, ‘All Indians are my brothers and sisters!’ and then quietly turn away fr
My daughter’s dog Noah has been left at my home for a few hours as she and my son-in-law have gone out for lunch. I watch him as he paces all over my home, looks through the window anxiously and watching him,
‘Supreme Court: Kin of Covid victims entitled to compensation’ Indian Express “Why should we take responsibility for an act of god?” ask bewildered leaders.In insurance parlance, Covid-19 is called
New Zealand cemeteries are very different from the rest of the world. Elsewhere graves lie serene and somber, but in New Zealand, especially those graves of the Islanders, are curiously explicit. As I walked th
They all schooled together, grew up as one, spun tops, flew kites, played marbles, and in the playgrounds of school, followed more sophisticated sports like cricket, hockey, football, as seasons went by.They hu
It’s not a second or third wave of the virus, but a wave of sorrow that envelops us today!If you feel sad and depressed right now, and can’t understand why, then join billions of others who feel the same, a
She lay on the ventilator, as fervent prayers went up from hundreds, in plea chains and waves, outside same hospital, “Save her!” they prayed, and up in heaven God listened to their prayers even as He looke
“They’re frowning down below!” laughed the clouds as they stared back at the jovial sun, who was trying his best to make them hot, but then clouds don’t become hot do they, I mean, have you ever heard o
It wasn’t too many years ago, every time the word ‘computers’ was mentioned, government employees would go on strike. Millions of man hours were wasted as clerks continued to painstakingly and laboriously
After my morning walk, I sit for an hour on my terrace garden, savoring my pot of delicious coffee. All around me I hear the sounds of birds and squirrels, as the peepul tree towering over me provides a home to
Very often we make a god out of a guru or priest and feel disappointed and even lose our beliefs when they fall.Many, many years ago as a child I used to sit in church and like all youngsters fidget, look aroun
Every morning as I sit in my little garden and ponder on what to write, I look at the little blue collapsible stool on which I place my newspapers and remember my father. Today, on Father’s Day, I specially t
