No, Im not speaking of China or Pakistan, as I see you pondering and wondering who else it could be!Years ago, Prime Ministers like Indira Gandhi and others, when faced with domestic turmoil, would point the en
Wednesday, 25th February, 2026
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Bob’s Banter
She was just seventeen, French and weeping on my daughter's shoulder as she came out of the restaurant where we'd partied last night. "What's up?" I asked my little one, "Why's she crying?""What kind of friends
And today, a story of Smiley from a play I had written years ago. Smiley was a convict imprisoned in one of those high security jails. Smiley used to look at the high walls that stood between him and the world
Why did my wife go down with the Covid-19 virus? Isolated for fifteen days, initially with a high viral count? Why did God allow this to happen? Such thoughts rankled in me.A few days before the virus att
Economy at Doorstep of Recovery, says RBI guv the headlines in todays paper said and immediately felt a sense of deep peace settling over me. I was startled out of my restful repose by the clanging of my doorbe
She was late, and from outside the hall she heard the sound of noisy revelry flowing. She entered, and heard everyone gasp, Kamala, is it you? came the lone voice of Premila, sounding much older but still
It beats me, we havent beaten Covid yet. Everybody but everybody has a remedy for it, and most of them who have found one, call me up to suggest how theyre beating the virus, Have a hot water bath every two hou
It was on one of these Zoom calls that this pretty friend asked, Whats with the beard Bob?Ive always had a beard! I replied quickly.True, but youre suddenly growing it longer!So that you will start believing in
And as the nation with a sense of shock finds the Maharashtra governor deriding a chief minister by calling him secular I foresee a situation like this arising: Ma, cries a little fellow, as he returns home fro
It loomed outside, fearful, menacing, growing bigger everyday: The Covid Mountain!I tried to look beyond, but the forbidding shadow of fear blocked my gaze. It stood, grim, evil, darkly foreboding!Lord! I cried
Got you, didnt I? You thought I was calling you a Walt Disney bunny rabbit, didnt you? One of those hopping four legged furry fellows who multiply as quickly as you put them together, but no, its not that type
Can you imagine, said the local corporator, poking a fat finger into my ribs, the people want a new bus terminus.Yes, I said, Ive heard about that.What do we need a bus terminus for, laughed the corporator, whe
With loved ones testing positive, my head reeled, and as I often do, searched for some story from old columns of mine that could steady my worried mind.I found a story that had long fascinated me; that of an ol
Sing the solo Bob! the choir conductor told me.No, I said.But its your old church!Thats why I dont want to sing a solo! I whisper I just want to sit in the choir pew I sat in many decades ago, and thank God, fo
The pen is mightier than the sword we say glibly, repeating an oft quoted line, but having no idea whether its true or not, or sometimes what it means!Swords! Gone are those days! Swords are not used anymore, a
When my children were quite tiny, I made a trip to New York to visit my parents, and when returning decided I would fill my suitcases with gifts for them and also my wife. I stared at the amazing stuff be
With half of America rooting for the virus, in Trump, and the other half cursing the virus for attacking Trump, the Virus I soon found was nearly having a nervous breakdown. Interview the Virus! my editor barke
Watch out! I shouted as my driver swerved to avoid the cyclist then jumped out of the car and ran to pick up the fallen man.Thats when I saw his bicycle.It lay old and rusty. I looked down at it and it seemed n
The newspaper boy, clutching his newspapers like diamonds in his hand, shouted, Vaccine found! Vaccine available! And people hearing him at the railway station and street outside, rushed to get a copy of the pa
The other day while scanning the news in the local papers I saw this hideous picture of an ugly man; face all patched up, hardly any nose, no eyebrows and two skin projections for ears! He had been through a gr
