Maybe you dont know, or just maybe you dont want to read between the lines but with recent pictures of a bare chested Putin flexing muscle, or another talking about the size of his chest, theres a new breed of
Friday, 13th March, 2026
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Bob’s Banter
How often Ive seen a child or maybe an adult rushing home from school or work, eyes all aglow, Ive done well in my exam! shouts the child to his parents, Ive got a fantastic order today! says the man to his wif
In ancient Greece and Rome, the Stoics, a group of philosophers who preached the value of emotional resilience — and whose teachings have plenty of modern-day devotees — urged adherents to let insults go. M
Dont worry, well keep you in a safe house! says the police officer reassuringly to the frightened but bold person who has decided to testify against his criminal boss! And time and again as such a courageous pe
Its always amused me some, that in the US a black man is called coloured. I guess to the white man of the old days, anything that was not white was coloured.Today, though its not about the coloured folk of Amer
It was one of those days when you suddenly have time and you don't know what to do with it; the wedding ceremony I'd attended was over by four in the afternoon and the reception was late in the evening; somehow
Was listening to Shashi Tharoor speak very eloquently on how the British looted India and about the atrocities committed. I have visited New Zealand and the United States, where the natives keep reminding the w
Im so sorry to hear youre down with Covid! you whisper with concern into the phone, And if theres anything I can do for you, dont hesitate to ask!Well, it might not be just during these times of the virus we ut
Being a writer has its drawbacks I discovered one day when I took my shoes over to the shoe shop. "New shoes!" said the shoe shop owner looking at the pair."Quite old," I said, "nearly three years!""They're sti
And as India erupts in colour, what a delightful scene it is! Reds and greens, blues and orange, yellows and browns, splashed, sprayed, squeezed, and suddenly joy and laughter erupting from town and village, ci
The vet shakes his head as he looks at my old Jeff, Hes on his last legs! he says and it is painful for me to hear that.What can we do to make him comfortable? whispers my wife, and is told of a waterbed, to lo
Bang! Bang! Bang!Not once, not thrice either, but dozens of rounds, from a lethal AR-15 assault rifle!Not in the wilds of Africa or a barbaric area like the present Syria, but in Boulder, 45 kilometres from Den
As I drove to the airport that day, early this morning, my heart was heavy with sadness, I was going to say goodbye to my precious child and I drove in silence, You okay dad? she whispered, and I nodded,
There are many whove tried to define democracy, and there are many definitions for the same, but when I think of democracy I think of a road. A road called Democracy, leading to ones Utopia! It is a narrow road
I am a very secular person! announced Mrs Kapoori one day to the girls at home, who were her paying guests, I dont care if you are Punjabi or Bihari or South Indian! And then she heard the noise. It was the sou
Like the man on the moon, there is an old man in Mars. He stroked his white beard as he looked through his telescope at the spaceship that was encircling his planet, "There's a ship from earth!" he announced an
Two years ago, a new dog, with long pointed ears, entered the colony I live in. Nobody wanted the new stray, to stay in the premises, and so all the watchmen were kept very busy, every day chasing it out of the
Havent been to a station in a while, and Im not sure they have weighing machines on railway platforms like there used to have before. This particular weighing machine, I remember, always had a long line of peop
As I watch the Bengal elections, I imagine a foreigner friend asking me, How can a candidate win an election without a debate?To show him we could also have what the west had, I decided to organize one.We picke
She was still staring at her husband; eyes full of love, and yes, some other expression, as though she was seeing his face after a long time. The owner of the horse cart turned away after looking at the couple,
