Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements

India is currently facing a crisis of great national importance. Not inflation, not unemployment, not even potholes that could qualify […]

The Anti- Conversion Law has arrived in Maharashtra, and like all significant state and national developments, I felt it my

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding about diplomacy. Many people believe diplomacy means compromise. They imagine two leaders entering

There is something very mysterious that happens to us when we step into a lift. Outside the lift we are

Yesterday morning I received a rather urgent phone call. “Bob,” said a voice on the line, “the engineers have come

War has finally arrived at our dining table. Not with tanks, not with soldiers marching past our windows, but with

Around where I live the temperature has climbed to forty-two degrees centigrade. Forty two. The kind of temperature where the

India won. Not in kabaddi, not in gilli-danda, but in cricket. We thrashed New Zealand, and a few days earlier

Something quite extraordinary has happened in our country this week. Silence. Not the peaceful silence of meditation. Not the calm

Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. Across the world women celebrate freedom. Hard won freedom. The right to vote. The right