“Can’t you see I’m suffering?” we shout at the person who has brought us a glass of water. The person can certainly see it. After that reception, they are suffering…
When videos surfaced showing groups of men harassing women in Bihar’s Samastipur and Jamui, the words that police are “checking the authenticity of the video” caught my attention. Immediately, I…
Halfway through a dip in the sea, I once swallowed a mouthful of seawater and announced that the sea was against me. A friend swimming beside me said, “The sea…
When I heard that the bank strike had been called off, I wondered what would have happened if it had gone ahead. I haven’t visited my bank in months. But,…
Yesterday, as my car passed a liquor shop near Fort in Bombay, a notice in bold letters caught my eye: ONLY THOSE ABOVE 25 MAY BUY LIQUOR. I laughed. At…
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.