Columns - Bobs Banter

Despite instructions, warnings and pleading from the government to abstain from lighting firecrackers, this Festival of Lights, the pleas fell

November 17, 2020

“Yours is one helluva bloody country,” exclaimed my English friend as he walked out of the airport. “On the contrary,”

November 16, 2020

“The only thing one does with advice is to pass it on. It is hardly used by oneself….” Oscar Wilde

November 15, 2020

Years ago I remember going over to the school my children were studying in. I met the teacher and asked

November 15, 2020

A few days ago, two ex IAS officers spoke on, “Dissent in Democracy’ and since I was on the panel

November 13, 2020

A few years ago I watched astonished as Jeff, my huge, scary German- Shepherd dog, became a little pup and

November 12, 2020

“Mama!” “Yes my son?” “The exit polls said, I and that thirty one year old boy would win in Bihar!”

November 11, 2020

The quarreling in the house at the end of the road, had been going on throughout the night and finally

November 10, 2020

Sir Niceness, nearly lost out in the four years that the White House was occupied by a boorish, loud, arrogant

November 9, 2020

Sometime before the lockdown I had been invited by an organization to deliver the keynote address at a church. My

November 8, 2020

It was just the other day while shopping with my daughter, I noticed I was paying more attention to the

November 7, 2020

“A finishing school for men?, “I asked the owner of the school, “I have never heard of anything so strange.”

November 6, 2020

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