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The Captain, Compassion, and Suicide..!
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The Captain, Compassion, and Suicide..!
July 15, 2025 Robert Clements 4

The world, it seems, is no longer whispering. It’s murmuring loudly, speculating wildly, and pointing fingers with grim certainty at the cockpit of the doomed Air-India aircraft. “Suicide,” they say….

Andy the Ant..!
Andy the Ant..!
July 15, 2025 0

“Humans,” sighed Andy the little Ant, flattening himself against a cracked tile, “have only one purpose in life: to kill us!” His mother, veteran of many a kitchen swabbing raid…

Hugging the Wrong Curve..!
Hugging the Wrong Curve..!
July 14, 2025 2

It was a line I read years ago, tucked away in a traffic police safety article: “He crashed because he was hugging the wrong curve.” You see, he wasn’t steering…

A Bhangra ‘Abide With Me’..!
A Bhangra ‘Abide With Me’..!
July 11, 2025 16

The other day I was humming “Abide With Me” under my breath—yes, just quietly, reverently, in my usual out-of-tune baritone—when someone at home (I won’t mention who, but she’s usually…

There’s Dirt Beneath Your Feet..!
There’s Dirt Beneath Your Feet..!
July 11, 2025 4

Over the years, I’ve felt rather smug about my eyesight. Never needed glasses for anything except reading. While friends began peering over bifocals, I’d flash my eyes proudly and hit…

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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.

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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.

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