They called her the chapati lady! She walked in the park, and as she strolled along, she threw warm, tender chapatis to the stray dogs who waited for her each morning. The strays loved her. They waited for her
Saturday, 14th March, 2026
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Bob’s Banter
Very lately at around eleven in the morning, which is an hour or more after breakfast, and two hours before lunch, Ive been having a small bottle of coconut water. This was once the time when I had my second cu
Many years ago while reading the book, Silas Marner by George Eliot, I remember the way one of the characters, Molly dies in a snow storm. She trudges through the falling snow and finding it increasingly diffic
Was sipping tea in the back seat of my car last week, when my driver, a replacement for my chp who had gone on leave, suddenly braked, throwing scalding hot tea from my glass all over me, "Sorry sir," he said a
Here's something for all of you who strive to build a career or branch off into business to read the book, "The Other Side of Me"by Sidney Sheldon. In those pages you will see how hard work, persistence and dis
They were exceptionally good skits, all done using ChatGPT! I watched the actors working on their dialogues and noticed their lines were all geared towards solving addiction problems. ChatGPT had done an excell
What I had in my youth was a burning passion for bikes, and what mechanics latched onto those days were people like me, who knew nothing about these mean machines, except being dazzled by the external spit and
Love transcends religion, caste and other man made barriers! Much prose and an equal number of lines of poetry have sprung from the hearts of writers and lovers expressing this emotion called love! But, the gre
Whoever heard of heavy rains in April and suddenly there was a search to find my umbrellas, who I believe go on vacations between one monsoon and another. Looking for them brought back memories of their ancesto
When America got its freedom, something that the founding fathers enshrined in their constitution was the right of every American to pursue happiness.It sounds good, but what the people found was that the pursu
Attach their properties! shouts a shrill voice. People shake their heads as they hear these orders and many including me hearing those words or seeing the headlines think it comes from a state which uses bulldo
Rajs breakfast was burnt! and the coffee tasted like sludge. Furious, he got into his car to drive to work, and a few kilometres down the road, heard the loud sound of a bang.The old man at the puncture shop, l
The house I grew up in was an isolated one, and though it was fun to have huge fields outside and even a vineyard at the edge of those fields, for me, a youngster, not yet into his teens, the nights were scary.
A friend of mine, a big businessman, came to me at a party, Bob, he said, Will you teach me how to speak in public?Sure! I said.I am a multi-millionaire, he said, I make the toughest deals, but when I stand in
Was rather perplexed to read this morning that more old couples were filing for divorce than ever before, But why would people in their old age move to end decades of togetherness? I wondered and walked to the
As a writer very often I face uncertain times, and have to make decisions regarding my future. Quite often Ive hesitated, but one story retold by another writer has always helped me make decisions, and not hesi
The scream came from the bedroom, Lizard? I asked casually from the sitting room and found no reply, Cockroach? I shouted again, and again hearing no answer, rushed to where the wife was, Whats wrong? I asked.L
Many years ago, just out of college, I worked in my fathers company as a salesman. Theres one lesson I learnt in sales, Ive never forgotten, and that was to never allow the customer to feel that you needed the
I'd never been one to visit the sick and always felt my wife, a doctor, did enough visiting at her hospital for both of us; but this time I had to go. He was an old man, well into his eighties and I had always
This morning I spent the better part of an hour with a friend of mine discussing whether I should take upon myself certain responsibilities: He was quite insistent that I serve on a particular board and I, know
