Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements

Over the last week I have been spending time with people who were part of my growing up years. Schoolmates. […]

The news came like news always does these days. Casually. Between a cricket score and a discount sale. Someone powerful

The school buildings had been torn down a year ago. Flattened. Cleared. Wiped out. All to make way for something

There is a brand-new national pastime that has quietly overtaken cricket, it is the sacred art of correcting someone who

At home my piano is a silent one. It stands there in the sitting room, polished, upright, respectable. Visitors notice

The guardian minister for Mumbai recently visited King Edward Memorial Hospital, lovingly and universally known as KEM. A place where

The municipal elections in Mumbai are over, the banners have been taken down, the loudspeakers have finally fallen silent, and

Winning elections is exhilarating. Slogans work, crowds cheer, numbers add up, and victory music is played. It is a moment

The courtroom of the International Court of Justice was unusually quiet that morning. Even the translators had stopped whispering into

There is something profoundly touching about the sight of elected representatives being escorted to a luxury resort, not for a