A few years ago while spending a pleasant evening in one of the many family run restaurants in Korea, seated comfortably on cushions at low tables with legs crossed in modified lotus position, the middle aged w
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Bob’s Banter
Exhausted after having written the synopsis of a three act play, getting a top Mumbai theatre personality interested in another, meeting a producer for my film script, and finishing the teaching of my onl
The Supreme Court feels that the two years imprisonment now meted out for causing death due to rash driving is ‘grossly inadequate’. I agree, but would like to define what the police believe is rash and neg
The people are revolting in Sri Lanka! So what?Russia is invading Ukraine! I’m not bothered!A certain community is being bullied! So what, It’s not mine!Every day we read of war, human rights violations, cr
Many years ago, I fell sick with a near fatal illness. Most doctors gave up on me, except the Mighty Healer. After getting back on my feet, albeit a little shaky, I remember conducting a choir, in which my gift
As I see people applauding, believing wholeheartedly in what our present politicians promise I remembered a joke my late mother had sent me, called 'The Vote for Heaven or Hell!'A powerful senator dies after a
I still remember that day, I slipped and fell in the bathroom. My feet shot into the air and I fell with a thud on my back. I gingerly opened eyes and found that except for a slightly bruised elbow, I was none
As a teenager, I quite often faced pimples, and sometimes a single pimple sprouting out of my face could wreck my confidence, my evening and even make me lose a date! I remember an ad that used to come out, “
Was enjoying my coffee on my terrace garden this morning, watching friendly squirrels and birds pecking at pieces of bread I’d thrown for them, then slowly began to feel restless, even as I was enjoying the m
She stood, a small figure in front of the school notice board. With anxious eyes she searched for her number. It wasn't there.The girls around her jostled and pushed. There were screams of delight and shrieks o
“If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.”Quite often I see people who don’t want to be noticed. It’s not that they are not noticed, it’s
How much money did it take for so many MLAs to cross the floor, betray their leader, betray their voters, forget their ideology and run to the other end of the country? I wonder what people do with so muc
Something I love doing if I go for a drive, is to instruct my driver to drive slowly, while I look down every street, into every shop, sometimes homes that have their doors open. I gaze at people going about th
A year ago, on that morning of July 5th in a hospital in Mumbai, a voice spoke, “You’re free Father Stan!”“Free? How can I be free, I’ve been languishing in prison for over eight months! Hey!”“Wha
“I hope I’m not going to put you and your family to any inconvenience,” I tell my friend as I enter his house.“No problems,” for any of us, “We have a guestroom waiting for you!”I shudder when I h
The joyous shouts from the private swimming pool outside, the thought of a scrumptious breakfast soon, the sight of my two beloved daughters and their husbands, and hot coffee brought to my little cottage by my
“Dad,” said my daughter one day, “Isn’t it Central Park that you’ve always loved?” I was quiet, because though I loved the park and all the fall colours I was sure it offered, I still knew that it w
Yesterday was Father’s Day, which made me remember a story I told prisoners in a jail about another father. It so happened that a team invited me to visit a prison in Mumbai. What I saw that day in that priso
It was as the forty plus politician, the beginnings of grey stubble on his cheek, looking down and despondent, walked away from the hospital, where his mother, suffering from post covid complications lay, that
This morning's paper had me dumbfounded; most students who had passed their exams had scored over ninety percent. I called home immediately: “Lock my cupboard and hide the keys!”“Why?” asked the wife,
