This happened a few years ago on a visit to San Francisco: The room shook one night. I could feel the tremor; I looked around, where was I supposed to run, or was I supposed to run? The room shook again and I ran to the doorpost and stood under…
Earthquake and the Virus ..!
You and Fake News..!
With all of us staying at home, with no idea what is happening outside, all sorts of news fills our WhatsApp and email inboxes! Most are convincing as with cleverly worked out facts and figures, nicely padded and parceled into believable packages, we accept it! And… …we forward it! What…
Dare to Persevere at this Time..!
Now? During the Coronavirus? Are you joking? No, I’m not! Because perseverance means succeeding because you’re determined to, not because you’re entitled to. Achievers don’t sit back and wait for success because they think the world ‘owes them’. Ask God for direction, then go forward and refuse to quit. You…
GOD SAVE US..!
Desperate men and women all over the world, look with stricken eyes at each other, the rich keeping a social distance and the poor, having no place to keep that luxurious space between. “God SAVE us!” people, the world over cry. And then hush, I hear my mother’s beautiful voice…
Love, During This Virus Time..!
Two members from my housing society have decided to lend a helping hand to those in the colony, the elderly, sick and differently abled who are finding it hard to manage in today’s lockdown. They have identified twelve such families and even as I write, they are going from house…
Make Loud Mistakes..!
A few years ago, I was invited to sing for a choir, for a concert they were practicing for! It was a whole new lot of choristers and very new music I was going through. I followed what I’d always done; sung out and in doing so made a mistake,…
Police, Beating Up People..!
I’ve been seeing videos of policemen thrashing men and women venturing out of their homes during curfew, beating them mercilessly with their lathis, and under the forward of one such video was a comment from the sender, “I support the police for this action!” I wanted to send a rejoinder…
Soap..! ( A True Story )
’Twas the most unusual of gifts, a hamper full of different soaps! Now, don’t make fun of me dear readers for receiving this gift, I’m sure there be many who will, say, ‘Bob, you must have raised a stink with the speech you gave for them to have given you…
How to Handle the Lockdown..!
What’s it, you’ve been doing the last couple of days of the lockdown? Played some of the board games recommended on WhatsApp groups? Heard jokes over the phone from husbands about ‘housework’ they plan to do? Or seen music videos circulated, most of them religious music, by some who had…
Clap! Clap! Clap! at 5 pm..!
And as I joined my nation at 5 pm, clapping, what I heard were not just the sounds of two hands joining together to produce applause, no, what I heard was unitedness, togetherness, a singleness of purpose, a collective positivity, a unanimous feeling of bonding, shoulder to shoulder, hand in…