There was more fear yesterday over the imminent cyclone lashing Mumbai, than the coronavirus! Locals, spent all their time, finding out how close the cyclone was while barricading their windows,…
After reading a full page advertisement in yesterday’s newspaper, advising everybody to become vegetarians, my millionaire neighbour a diehard non- vegetarian decided he would become a veggie. “One might as…
There’s two little fellows, twins, who came into my life just over two years ago, and now as they and their mother, my daughter, are stuck with me because of…
Nobody had seen the boy before. “He must have come in from the forest,” the villagers said. “He is not the Mowgli type,” the wise headman said, looking at him….
“You know something,” whispered Democracy, sitting at the Lincoln Memorial, and looking ruefully at Autocracy and Monarchy, “I feel small, insignificant and very inadequate at this moment in time!” “Inadequate…
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.” …Michelle Walker Quite often I see people who don’t want to…
Some years ago I was trying to get an inhouse magazine ready and suddenly the printer told me he couldn’t deliver. My dad who had a small printer attached to…
T’was on one of those early mornings when driving for a breakfast meeting, I suddenly realized I had time on hand. I slowed the car down and found I was…
Most psychologists say that this lockdown will help bring families together, but I doubt that will happen as long as our mobile phones keep us company.. Unless…. And I mischievously…
“…Just say a simple ‘yes’ I will, or a ‘no’ I won’t. Your word is enough..” Matthew 5: 37 While running a business, I came across many types of customers:…
This happened exactly seven years ago: I still shudder as I remember that early morning call, “Bob, your mother just passed away!” “Ma!” I’d screamed, and my cry echoed in…
With domestic flights scheduled to start on Monday, what airline officials, and their Call Centre employees are learning is, most people have forgotten how to fly, “What do I carry…
My daughter had sent me this lovely, revealing article by Seth Adam Smith, a part of which I’d like to share with you today: “Having been married only a year…
I used to overhear this conversation between a child all of six years, and her mother every morning, when they’d come on vacation “Mummy what’s the plan for today?” The…
When the lockdowns started, people, or rather some I know decided to spend time either in strengthening relationships, getting closer to God, or doing something worthwhile! Strangely, after nearly two…
Many of us are dismayed about another period of staying put in our homes! “Another lockdown?” we ask each other, sighing heavily. How often we spend our time looking at…
“What?” I angrily asked the two birds a few mornings ago while they looked in at me, outside my window. Were they laughing at me? They seemed to be giggling….
“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” ― André Berthiaume “Did you know our country may soon…
Author : 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.