It’s a suspicious world we live in now. If we dress different, look different, people are wary, so much so a political leader remarked, “I know who’s behind our political…
‘Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have’ Gautama Buddha With a disgruntled look on his face, Kumar got into his car as his…
With lethal, bludgeoning, battering blows, that make sickening thud as wooden stick meets soft, beautiful head, proud father lands each blow on his beloved daughter. Limp eyes look up with…
At this very moment, there are more selfies being taken than cameramen or professional photographers taking pictures! Two months ago, while walking down the streets of New York I found…
They were not the kind of group you might have expected Jesus to send forth on his mission to reach the world. There was nothing special or spectacular about them….
Poor Mirabai Chanu! What a weight rested on her, as one point three billion pinned all their hopes on her weight lifting shoulders! What a shame, that we, with the…
It was a huge ad in the newspaper, not just a page, but two; it showed pictures and prices of scores of items that were going at a discount. There…
‘Twas just before the Covid wave a friend called, “I’ve got tickets for the IPL matches, want to come Bob?” “You crazy?” I asked him, “I’ve got my old TV…
This happened before Covid shut schools down. The call came while I was out. “Please come and hear your song.” It was the headmaster of a school. He had asked…
Quite often I see an apology in the newspapers for some news item wrongly reported, or see a crime movie where the slick lawyer says, “I’m sorry your honour!’ But…
“What’s that?” asked the little child pointing to a huge shell on the ground. “It’s a shell, with a snail inside it!” I explained. We both looked at it awhile,…
“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes.” Martin Luther A few years ago, a close friend of mine, whose…
It’s a small showpiece dagger I hold in my hand, a present from the Mayor of Batangas in the Philippines, when I’d visited the country many years ago. He was…
My wife, a medical doctor, is quite strict about the sweets I am allowed to have, and when she does give me permission, laughs as I take it, sit on…
Watching movies centred around old kingdoms, kings and courts, one is intrigued by the role played by courtiers who surround the king, or the ladies in waiting, bowing and curtsying…
Laws like sedition and abetment to suicide are used conveniently by the police to harass the public. And because cunning people know such laws can be used to land you…
What part of the car causes the most accidents? Ans: The nut that holds the wheel! Opened the newspaper this morning and found a whole supplement devoted to cars so…
A wise old bird sat on an oak- The more he saw, the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Lord make me like that wise…
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.