Dolly Parton died yesterday at the age of eighty, and I imagine heaven had a small problem receiving her. “Name?” asked the angel at the gate. “Dolly Parton.” “Occupation?” “I…
“Your suitcase is overweight,” said my wife as we prepared to leave the Poconos. “Impossible,” I said. “I have hardly bought anything.” She looked at the gifts, books, clothes and…
“Bandra,” I told the auto driver. He looked at me suspiciously. “Bandra?” he repeated. “Yes, Bandra.” “East or West?” “West.” And with that, our highly complicated linguistic exchange was successfully…
“I wish you hadn’t gone out last evening,” said my wife. I looked at her with the innocent expression husbands have perfected over centuries. “Yesterday evening?” I asked, buying three…
Since we are holidaying as a family near Lake Naomi in the Poconos, where my daughter has a home in the pine woods, I became curious about its name. The…
Author : Robert Clements
Course by Robert Clements
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.