Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements

Years ago, while still young, I owned a contracting firm. One morning, I got a call that one of my […]

So, the Railways have announced—with the solemnity of a priest at a last rites service—that they’ll finally install automatic doors

It was like watching a low-budget remake of a despot’s courtroom drama—except it took place not in some banana republic,

Two days ago, while having my morning coffee, listening to the birds and flipping through the newspaper with one hand

It was a heroic moment. Or so I thought. There I stood like some suburban Hercules, staring at my treadmill.

Many years ago, while writing for the Asian Age, a paper that MJ Akbar owned, he wrote me a line

When we are called to part, it gives us inward pain… said the old hymn, which Jane hummed under her

My mother didn’t raise me on just verses from the scriptures or moral science textbooks. She also raised me on

So Bangladesh has begun a trial against Hasina for mass murder. My first reaction? “Wait, wasn’t she in power just

Over forty-one years ago, I bought my first car. I was just in my twenties, armed with ambition, a growing