A few days ago, two ex IAS officers spoke on, Dissent in Democracy and since I was on the panel I said, that dissent was not just disagreement but someone stating, Please listen to me! I too have a viewpoint on
Friday, 13th March, 2026
Support The Morung Express. Your Contributions Matter Click Here
Bob’s Banter
A few years ago I watched astonished as Jeff, my huge, scary German- Shepherd dog, became a little pup and followed my nephew around the room, nuzzling into his ear and behaving as if hed found a long lost frie
Mama!Yes my son?The exit polls said, I and that thirty one year old boy would win in Bihar!I know my son, but they were wrong! On top of it you lost quite miserably!But the exit polls did not say that! I think
The quarreling in the house at the end of the road, had been going on throughout the night and finally the neighbours, unable to sleep called the police.Sir, said the inspector as he entered the house and looke
Niceness, nearly lost out in the four years that the White House was occupied by a boorish, loud, arrogant president, and though many reasons have been attributed to his downfall, despite fulfilling many of his
It was just the other day while shopping with my daughter, I noticed I was paying more attention to the pavement I was walking on than the display in the shop windows. I wondered for a moment and realized I was
And as Trump, hees and haws about letting go of the presidency, Liberty, the statue calls out to him, Baby Donny, now give your toy white house to Joe, youve had four full years of living there!No, I wont! See
A nightmare faced by air hostesses quite often, other than hijacks and terrorist attacks are people who want to walk past the food trolley to the toilet when food is being served. I was talking to Anne a pretty
Mine did, just now!Whats happening? asked my dusty brown pair of shoes, now looking almost black after being unused for the last eight months or so, We used to be your source of pride! You even got a family mem
As I read about the beheading and terrorist sponsored deaths in France, my mind goes to that Night of Terror in the city twelve years ago, when I was just a few feet away as hundreds died! The Press Club in Mum
Suddenly many Americans are scared. Trump wont leave the White House! they say, even if he loses! It doesnt help that visitors standing outside the monumental presidential home in Washington imagine all sorts o
No, Im not speaking of China or Pakistan, as I see you pondering and wondering who else it could be!Years ago, Prime Ministers like Indira Gandhi and others, when faced with domestic turmoil, would point the en
She was just seventeen, French and weeping on my daughter's shoulder as she came out of the restaurant where we'd partied last night. "What's up?" I asked my little one, "Why's she crying?""What kind of friends
And today, a story of Smiley from a play I had written years ago. Smiley was a convict imprisoned in one of those high security jails. Smiley used to look at the high walls that stood between him and the world
Why did my wife go down with the Covid-19 virus? Isolated for fifteen days, initially with a high viral count? Why did God allow this to happen? Such thoughts rankled in me.A few days before the virus att
Economy at Doorstep of Recovery, says RBI guv the headlines in todays paper said and immediately felt a sense of deep peace settling over me. I was startled out of my restful repose by the clanging of my doorbe
She was late, and from outside the hall she heard the sound of noisy revelry flowing. She entered, and heard everyone gasp, Kamala, is it you? came the lone voice of Premila, sounding much older but still
It beats me, we havent beaten Covid yet. Everybody but everybody has a remedy for it, and most of them who have found one, call me up to suggest how theyre beating the virus, Have a hot water bath every two hou
It was on one of these Zoom calls that this pretty friend asked, Whats with the beard Bob?Ive always had a beard! I replied quickly.True, but youre suddenly growing it longer!So that you will start believing in
And as the nation with a sense of shock finds the Maharashtra governor deriding a chief minister by calling him secular I foresee a situation like this arising: Ma, cries a little fellow, as he returns home fro
