chhotebhai's Writings

  • BROTHER NEEM

    # chhotebhai Brother Neem You must be a hundred years old Standing sentinel before our ancestral home. My earliest memory of you As a little child Was of fear. You were so big and dense So the servants kept us Children at bay. Snakes could be lurking there. Still I remember The joy of discovery…

  • A MOODY NATION

    All of us have our moods, individually, and collectively as a nation. India Today, the nation’s leading weekly, has brought out an “Exclusive Mood of the Nation Poll” published in its issue dated 19th February. I am not a number cruncher or a data analyst; but as a writer I like to read between the…

  • bilkis bano फैसले

    याचिका कर्ता Subhashini Ali से विशेष मुलाकात

  • MAY THEY ALL BE ONE

    A person’s dying wish is sacred. Jesus’ last desire, when “he raised his eyes to heaven” (Jn 17:1), was “that they may be one like us” (v11) and again “May they all be one” (v21). Jesus’ call to oneness (unity) of his disciples was based on his own deep relationship with the Father. That being…

  • GOING…GOING…GONE

    My family established its auctioneering business in 1858. It lasted for about 120 years. The Sunday morning auctions were a major source of interest and entertainment. When a bid was nearing completion the hammer would be raised with the solemn intonation “Going, going, gone”. The bid was closed, as an auction cannot go on indefinitely….

  • POST MERRIMENT POST MORTEM

    It bugs me when people wish me a “Merry Christmas”. It’s worse when it gets corrupted in the Hindi heartland to Marry or even Mary Christmas! Despite the goodwill in the greeting, it annoys me. It indicates that such a person doesn’t really know the meaning of Christmas, or is just blindly following a British…

Latest Comments

  1. We too remain helpless spectators with no clue as to what could be done at our end to prevent violence…

  3. This is Aus News channel clip: https://youtu.be/MxHebEeDvaU?si=5xlfict3iei0BOpj My comment: “We strongly condemn the unprovoked aggressive joint attacks by the U.S.…

  4. This is a very thorough, thought-provoking article by Chote Bhai. Lent is a time to reflect on our own “humanness”…