Columns

Pulling Up Your Crop..!
How often we are so impatient to see the results of some effort we are putting into some venture or
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February 4, 2024
Don’t Use Your Muscle..!
It was after a Christmas concert, while walking out of the Cathedral, I felt a touch on my arm, and
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February 3, 2024
Two Wives..!
Quite often some public figure caught in the public glare, having a rollicking time with someone other than his wife,
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February 1, 2024
Famous Last Words..!
 Fifteen years ago or so, on the death of Art Buchwald the famous humour columnist, my column replaced his in
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February 1, 2024
Tackling Death and the Unknown..!
Most everyone is scared of the unknown. When we board a plane, we are just a bit terrified, as we
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January 31, 2024
Pointed Ears..!
Yesterday I got a note from a reader, saying, “Bob, I long for the day when I won’t have any
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January 30, 2024
Win Life’s Battles..!
Life’s battles don’t always go, to the stronger or faster man, But sooner or later, the man who wins is
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January 29, 2024
Granny not a Nanny..!
Today’s column is addressed more to youngsters than older folk: It starts with old people living quite comfortably in retirement
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January 28, 2024
Never Too Busy for God’s Work..!
“Hi!” said the dead man as he arrived at the Pearly Gates, “May I come in?” “You’ll have to wait,”
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January 27, 2024
The Missing Spectacles..!
On silver  sands on a beachfront a pair of reading glasses looked myopically at the sea. They belonged to me.
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January 26, 2024
Firm Foundation on Republic Day…!
On this Republic Day, as we salute and celebrate the making of the Constitution of India, I remember the 2001
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January 25, 2024
Wrong Message..!
A procession by a majority community into a minority neighbourhood, stone pelting by foolish residents, and the next day bulldozer
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January 24, 2024