Had been to Goa for a businessmen’s convention, where I’d been invited as a speaker. The flight was good, but the plane was delayed by over an hour and I reached the hotel that I was being put up by the hos
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Bob’s Banter
The faraway glint of an approaching dawn, softening of black darkness, the first bold enthusiastic shaft of light lighting up a room, herald a new day. And of course, the first caw from an early rising crow, fo
Some four years ago, barber shops were full! Everybody, I heard with even a whiff of a mustache was trying to shape it downwards like Wing Commander Abhinandan’s whiskers! Even mummy’s eyebrow pencil disapp
Even as I see our prime minister striving hard to place India as a country to be reckoned with, what will cause impediments in his vision, is not a jealous China, nor a rising population, nor any domestic uphea
Quite often I see family run businesses where the father on paper has passed the mantle onto his son or daughter, but keeps hovering over the company possessively, not wanting to relinquish his authority! This
Spent an evening at the club, with a gentleman who knew one of India’s billionaires when he was coming up, “I knew him when he was struggling,” he said, “And I helped him a bit!”“You must be great f
As I hear about names of cities being changed left, right and centre I see members of the heritage committee, “This building and this and this and this!” exclaim members of the heritage committee as they wa
I’m in Chennai to speak at a function and as I drive down Mount Road, I know it’s got another name now, but Mount Road it will always remain to me, and as I drove down that long, very busy road that ends at
No, I’m not talking about selling the Adani stock and buying something else, but another investment, when I went back to school!I’d been asked to speak at a prestigious institution in the city sometime back
"Your bedroom's a mess!""It's not!" I tell my friends, "It’s a clutter of memories!""A clutter of what?" they gasp, "Just look at that air cooler on which all your books are kept, why d' you need it here when
It all happened in a jiffy.One moment walking tall!The next moment, a mighty fall!There I lay sprawled on the ground last evening, helpless for a moment, as I struggled to reactivate my traitor hands and feet t
The best way to let out your anger is not by using your fists, nor by silence, though many, many posts tell you to suffer in silence, but the right way is to express your rebuttal in words!That’s something we
Once upon a time, there was a dog farm, with many species of dogs in it. The dogs in the farm had won their freedom from foreign dogs who had ruled their farm for many years, and who ruled by using the ‘divid
“Why didn’t I have good looks like my sister?” a girl cried to her mother.The mother looked at her little girl, sighed and said, “Do you know my sisters and I grew up with a blind mother? One day when I
The other day I was talking to someone who’d been in the real estate business, and he told me he’d left the profession because of treachery, “Bob,” he told me, “Deals are made behind your back, by cli
As I glanced at the papers today, all of them mentioning different leaders in our country, I came across some thoughts by Steve Goodier on leadership, and added some of my own. But I want you to read it even as
On a visit to a physiotherapist, an exercise she prescribed for a painful right shoulder was the putting of my left arms against my right.“Clasp both your palms together and push against each other.” She sa
He’s gone now, to the great beyond, but many years ago, as I returned from my walk, I used to find a slightly oldish man waiting for me, his back bent, body trembling with Parkinson's, but eyes staring eagerl
As I bid farewell to the masons, carpenters and electricians and the last of the construction workers after they had repaired my old house, in the process carrying away three lorry loads or more of debris, I wa
‘Be secular: Supreme Court on PIL for ban on parties with religious link’ TOI, 1st Feb“What’s the news in India?” asked my American friend, as I read an Indian newspaper in an airport in America.“A
