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Yesterday I opened the paper to find right there on the front page, another rape in the outskirts of Mumbai.

March 29, 2023

The other day someone I knew made a strange statement, “Bob,” he said, “I’m everybody’s friend! I agree with everybody!”

March 27, 2023

At a talk I gave last night in South Mumbai, someone asked me at dinner what I thought of the

March 26, 2023

The old church was going to be two hundred! Walls that had never seen paint for over a decade were

March 25, 2023

T’was this morning I opened the newspaper and found a pretty model showing her dainty self on a dozen different

March 24, 2023

The auditors of the country, who are very powerful people and oversee how public money is spent by the ones

March 23, 2023

With attacks on poor Rahul worsening by the day, in my very vivid imagination I see the Congress think tank

March 22, 2023

Many years back while in business for my father, an interior designer, we would get a contract for the home

March 20, 2023

Something I love to nibble on are cashew nuts! My children and my wife know I love the dry fruit

March 20, 2023

It may come as a surprise to many, as some leaders clamour for a national language, that both the US

March 19, 2023

“Bob, do you know the difference between that man and us?” asked a friend as we sat listening to a

March 18, 2023

My friend, an orthopedic surgeon, was insistent. “Bob,” he said, “I need your help. My old clinic’s gotten too small.

March 17, 2023

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