The old wizened lady, sat with a copy of the newspaper in her wrinkled hands and studied the obituary columns intently. “He, he, he,” she suddenly giggled to herself, “she’s dead, she’s dead. Oh, than
Thursday, 16th October, 2025
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Bob’s Banter
A picture of a rocking chair in an advertisement of an old aged home, got me interested. ‘Relax!’ it said, “And let your life rock away!”I looked at it, and felt a sense of peace and calm. “Imagine!
Many world leaders and people across the globe are wondering why dear Boris from Merry England’s been chosen India’s Republic Day chief guest. A tabloid in London interviewed him, and found he was blown ove
Being married to a doctor, I hardly know if I’m going to be greeted next morning with a hug or a syringe!Today it was the syringe for me.“I’m okay!” I shout in protest. “What is the need to draw blood
With a vaccine manufacturer threatening to sue a volunteer for blaming his illness on the vaccine, I decided to journey into the future and accompany the foreign representative of a fictitious vaccine manufactu
Many years ago, a person I knew very well, a man of God, called me up, and we decided to meet for lunch. Since he was staying near the Tajmahal Hotel, I thought we’d lunch there. But at the entrance to the gr
My neighbour Ramkumar, suddenly appeared in the next balcony of my building and gave me a big smile, “Bob, I’ve discovered a vaccine the world needs at this moment!”“Whoa! Whoa!” I shouted, “You’v
….yes, a road was widened!The municipality came. Police arrived, shopkeepers protested.But the road was widened!Demolishers came. Workmen with shovels arrived. Labourers with spades worked night and day.And t
“Place the front door where the back door is now!”“Make your bedroom the kitchen.”“Place your kitchen platform here on the right.”“Close this window or put a mirror on the opposite wall.”I watch
With nearly fifty vaccines nearly ready, I can imagine this scene soon: The phone rings, and you answer, Yes?”“Sir we are from the Russian vaccine company! We have free gifts to offer along with the dose!
As I watch Trump, disgusted with the way he is not accepting his defeat, I remember watching the Oscars two years ago, and had seen how the host announced the wrong winner of the Best Picture Award: Instead of
How we love the preacher on TV who tells us that God intended each of us to be rich and prosperous and he will lead us to that God! He preaches what we want to hear; that religion which means the worshipping of
At the age of seventy-five my father was a computer wizard. In fact I remember so well dad teaching me the basics of the machine and its technology. He was a man who never slipped into a mode of ‘so much and
My neighbour who has a habit of poking his nose in my business, stood outside my house, as I dismantled the grill, unscrewed the heavy steel door, and opened the thick wooden shades, “What are you doing?” h
Despite instructions, warnings and pleading from the government to abstain from lighting firecrackers, this Festival of Lights, the pleas fell largely on deaf ears. Dense smoke and deafening blasts of crackers
“Yours is one helluva bloody country,” exclaimed my English friend as he walked out of the airport.“On the contrary,” I protested, “we are a very peace loving, non violent people.”“Then why all th
A few days ago, two ex IAS officers spoke on, “Dissent in Democracy’ and since I was on the panel I said, that dissent was not just disagreement but someone stating, “Please listen to me! I too have a vie
A few years ago I watched astonished as Jeff, my huge, scary German- Shepherd dog, became a little pup and followed my nephew around the room, nuzzling into his ear and behaving as if he’d found a long lost f
“Mama!”“Yes my son?”“The exit polls said, I and that thirty one year old boy would win in Bihar!”“I know my son, but they were wrong! On top of it you lost quite miserably!”“But the exit polls
The quarreling in the house at the end of the road, had been going on throughout the night and finally the neighbours, unable to sleep called the police.“Sir,” said the inspector as he entered the house and
