It wasnt too many years ago, every time the word computers was mentioned, government employees would go on strike. Millions of man hours were wasted as clerks continued to painstakingly and laboriously write in
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Bob’s Banter
After my morning walk, I sit for an hour on my terrace garden, savoring my pot of delicious coffee. All around me I hear the sounds of birds and squirrels, as the peepul tree towering over me provides a home to
Very often we make a god out of a guru or priest and feel disappointed and even lose our beliefs when they fall.Many, many years ago as a child I used to sit in church and like all youngsters fidget, look aroun
Every morning as I sit in my little garden and ponder on what to write, I look at the little blue collapsible stool on which I place my newspapers and remember my father. Today, on Fathers Day, I specially thou
Racists! Thats what the two have been branded as! Two writers, Enid Blyton and Rudyard Kipling, who shaped our formative years, both in reading and in the unleashing of childhood imagination, and who today, are
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.. Zhuangzi The lovely, agile and nimble steps of a bal
Protesting without arms is a fundamental right and not a terrorist activity - Delhi High CourtEven as the high court gives citizens of our country the right to protest, I do believe that the greatest gift a lea
Just read that the Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express would soon be reaching four hours faster! All this by building a wall along the railway tracks between Mumbai and Surat, which would allow the train to travel fa
There was a brown, barren patch of land behind my home.It looks like the Sahara Desert! I used to say as nothing grew there, and then overnight its become green. A few drops of rain, a few peals of thunder and
A butcher watching over his shop is really surprised when he sees a dog coming inside the shop. He shoos him away. But later, the dog is back again. So he goes over to the dog and notices it has a note in its m
Arent you hungry? is the question most wives ask, when they are about to serve dinner or lunch, and Whats for dinner? is the reply given by most husbands.Whats for dinner, means that if the food is interesting
With Jeff my German-Shepherd having passed away two months ago, its my daughters dog who comes up with my daughter and son-in-law nearly every night for dinner. Not yet completely out of puppyhood, hes given so
They say that in true love you lay yourself open.Truly that is a fact. I had got onto a helicopter at Manhattan, which would fly high above the skyscrapers and show us a different view of the New York skyline,
I opened the papers to glamorous pictures of a famous couple and headlines about their wedding at Jodhpur and their stay at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay. But what made me sit up was an item in a tabloid about
With the state of the economy plummeting, and money needed to handle the running of the country, rumour has it that everything under the sun would be taxed, but I didnt know how serious it was till I went for m
A couple of my serious minded friends have been saying, Bob youve been writing too much banter lately, what about a serious article?Like what? I askSomething churchy?Okay friends Ill oblige, heres something chu
Politics in our country has reached such a low, that people just wont trust politicians. I got a frantic message from a poor friend in Orissa saying that all around him people were dying for lack of oxygen, ven
I heard a funny story: A small plane with an instructor and student on board hit the runway and bounced repeatedly until it came to a stop. The instructor turned to the student and said, That was a terrible lan
For the last few years Ive been hearing of one of our political readers who hardly rests and is always is in a hurry. I do understand that as that was once how I lived. In fact, for years on end, my time spent
The Whatsapp message that came to me was from a phone number of an Indian in America, it said, Terror has no religion. However it was not making a statement, it was mocking a particular religious community, wit
