Bob’s Banter

  • Let the Slaps Stop...!
    It was a tight slap on the actress that left its mark!An act that should be condemned, however much we try to justify the reason behind it. It was not done by some angry member of the public but carried out by
  • A Time to Sow.!
    This is not a time to crow.Though the galvanising of thought and ideas were hugely successful, though the Constitution of the country has been saved, yet it is not a time to crow over one’s victory.There were
  • The Elections and Positivity..!
    The mood in the country is rather mixed right now after the elections, but if all of us could focus on the positive instead of the negative, then the whole country would be happy again. I came across this wonde
  • Adulation and Ordinary Man...!
    Man has many weaknesses, but one of his biggest is he can never play the role of God. Strangely, many dream of being gods in some form or other, of having people loving them absolutely, praising them constantly
  • Lessons from Yesterday..!
    Yes, there’s much to be learnt from the election results yesterday. But I’m going to cover only two, and that is compassion and arrogance.What India saw for the last few years for a resurgent Rahul, not the
  • Finding the Time and Place..!
    Had been invited to speak at a book-launch and during the evening asked the new author when he planned to write another book, “I plan to take three months off, and go to some place quiet, where I am alone, an
  • On Not Getting Sleep..!
    Ever so often do I hear people telling me how they lay awake through the previous night. They make it sound like the end of the world.“You lay awake all night?” I ask laughing.“Yes,” they say, “yes, d
  • Replacing the Morning Walk..!
    Maybe it’s the fact that I couldn’t complete my morning walk today, because I wasn’t feeling too well, that made me look for another alternative to walking.I stared at the advertisement: A walk machine! A
  • Your Decisions Make You..!
    “I’ve made many wrong decisions in my life,” said a famous person, “But I’m proud of every one of them, because I made a decision!”Life is all about making decisions isn't it?So often we go through
  • Is Your Job Done?
    It happened a few years ago, when a young Indian army officer serving in the dangerous Jammu and Kashmir region, received information that terrorists were firing indiscriminately onto the public at the Jammu Ra
  • Stop It! You’re Not Old..!
    Was in Bhopal a few months ago conducting a workshop on writing and public speaking, and having an extra day before heading home, was offered a sightseeing trip by a few students. There was a lot of Bhopal to b
  • Stop Being a Dinosaur...!
    There are many who fight shy and even condemn technological and scientific advances in our world. But by doing so they’ll become dinosaurs in our modern age. Here are some funny stories of those who struggled
  • My Miss World..!
    Two months ago, Krystyna Pyszkova from the Czech Republic clinched the Miss World 2024 title at a grand ceremony held in Mumbai, but today I remembered my Miss World:She lived behind my house in a hut for just
  • Make Mistakes and Learn..!
    Singing in one of the best choirs in the country and under the illustrious Coomi Wadia, I think I have been spoiled silly. A point she emphatically enforces is that in case a choir member makes a mistake during
  • Soft Terrorism..!
    There’s a soft terror that’s going unchecked in our country! As I watch politicians in our country speaking what they want and getting away with it, I’ve often wondered how they get away very often with m
  • Holding the Inked Finger Up..!
    It was a gathering in the country of a billion and a quarter, There were murmurs and sharp words, but no smiles, chuckles or laughter.The people were fed up, all those who’d gathered there, “What did you do
  • Even Death had No Room..!
    “You’ll have to move out, the building is unsafe,” the municipal engineers had told her, as they stood at her doorstep staring unashamedly at her buxom form as she cradled the baby in her arms.“Where?
  • Crushed Under a Billboard..!
    There’s only one purpose a billboard or hoarding serves; to be noticed!It cannot be hidden! It has to be glaringly visible! Telling the world, ‘Here I am, look at me!’ And that is exactly what the ONE HUN
  • Those Weird People Outside..!
    "You need to go out once in a while!" the wife's been telling me, “Otherwise a stage will come when the world outside won’t know you at all, or worse you might forget how to deal with the world outside!”
  • Worker Ants of India..!
    The only ‘Made in India’ product, we should be proud of sending abroad, and worth exporting is the product of peace and non-violence that was taught by Gandhiji and that won us our freedom. Otherwise, the v
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