This happened many years ago! The skies were dark and a heavy cloud hung over us as we drove on roads that echoed the darkness above. We were two writers in the car, my friend,
Wednesday, 29th October, 2025
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Bob’s Banter
Many believe that competition is bad, that life is meant to be peaceful and calm, sitting on a mountain, or playing golf! Gary Player for years was a great competitor in national and international golf tou
It wasn't too long ago that scowls and frowns greeted me when I entered a store abroad: Salesman at counter, shop owner and all the customers lifting their heads none too discretely, knew I'd come in just to br
“I have many questions,” she said as she sat in my car. It was raining heavily, and I had offered to drop her home. “Bob,” she said, “I read what you write, but I can’t subscribe to all your beliefs
“Today our youth are so focused!” said a father of one of the youth to me proudly. “Focused on what?” I asked.“On what they want to do in life! How much money they want to make, and where they wa
The wife told me we had to visit the neighbors this morning. She said we should take a box of sweets along with us. “Whatever for?” I asked, “are they moving out?”“Their daughter passed her SSC. It is
A few years ago, a scientist, Paul de Sousa of Edinburgh University announced at the BA Science Festival in Dublin that his team had succeeded in creating 'virgin embryos', or parthenotes, by stimulating a huma
Many years ago, I sat in an apartment in New York listening to an interesting argument between an elderly man and a doctor, who had been a childhood friend of mine. They were talking about religion and the topi
There’s only one person who looks good in the Modi jacket, and that’s the Prime Minister himself! Today, every tailor, throughout the country is rolling out thousands of yards of cloth stitching these new s
This morning I laughed as I read a comic strip where two ugly sea creatures at the bottom of the sea, awful squiggly, wriggly tentacles spread all over sea bed, bodies ugly, revolting, beady eyes peering from a
“We’re getting a visiting card made for you sir!” said someone on my staff, and I shuddered. It’s become fashionable today to hand out business cards or so it seems to me, as cards, nineteen to th
'Twas while walking in heaven a few years from today, I chanced to see two Israelites, trudging a little slowly, like they’d been forty years in the wilderness, so I asked the angel playing her harp at the si
“Come on China, come on Pakistan, we’re going to discuss Afghanistan!” “Why should we come?” snigger the two countries as they slither away from the National Security Advisor’s meet. The others
Cheap bottle, filled with cheap liquor, sat on a table in a cheap looking bar, looking craftily at a bedraggled man hunched in front. “Cheers!” said the cheap bottle of yellow fire.“Hic,” said the man.
Was talking yesterday with a friend who had just undergone a bypass; he looked a little despondent. “When I was in the hospital Bob,” he said turning ashen, “I suddenly realized that all that I had worked
Many authors have a brilliant idea, start a book and soon realize they are not writing anymore! And like those authors or writers, often we are very excited when given a new task, a new project or assignment; w
“Dad?” asked my elder one, “what’s happened to the friend you used to be quite fond of, the one who was like a brother to you?”“We’ve fallen apart!” I said gruffly.“And you never tried to repa
No, no! I’m not talking of the bear hugs being given worldwide, even to the Pope by a political leader! But years ago I spent some of my evenings with a friend who had a kidney problem. He had just got out of
There was a tapping on my window. It was midnight, and cold in the New York apartment where I was living. “Who’s that?” I asked petrified. You don’t get a tapping when you are so many floors up. I gentl
Why is everyone complaining about potholes during the monsoons? Potholes are good and we need to appreciate the government for allowing us to keep them for such long periods of time. Come with me to a dinner pa
