Now it’s not every day the Man in the Moon starts peering down at Earth, right? But today, his missus, realized that hubby was spending a little too much time…
There’s a tremendous sense of hope and anticipation now that Kamala Harris’s been announced as Joe Biden’s running mate, and to many, she’s already occupied the high post of VP!…
I heard the ambulance siren. It became louder and louder, and I wondered who it was being rushed to the hospital. The ambulance stopped just ahead of me and a…
The businessman with the briefcase came running up to the Heavenly Gates and pushed the pious old lady. “I came first,” he shouted. “My friends are all holy people,” said…
Poor Kanimozhi! Imagine an MP, a former Union Minister, daughter of one of Tamilnadu’s most famous chief minister’s, and in one’s own airport in Chennai, asked by the security, when…
A few years ago I had tears as I read the small news item tucked between killings and murders; it said an Indian man sentenced to death by UAE’s Supreme…
Ever thought that a repair job, needs a professional to do the job? That from buildings to our own lives we think we can do it ourself? CLICK HERE TO…
And as I looked at the scenario surrounding the death of the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, and police forces of two states pitted against each other, I wondered where…
“Mother!” cried the little girl, “I don’t want to go to college anymore! The lecturer called me an idiot!” The mother left her cooking and walked over to where her…
For weeks I’ve been hearing the sound of the pitter patter of rain outside my window, but was told that though the rain was falling in the city, it wasn’t…
Do you speak on the phone and drive? Like this young man driving the latest fancy car who had an arm on the steering wheel and the other hugging his…
Last year while visiting the home of my former class teacher, all of ninety-six years, she asked me to sing to her and I sang my favourite, ‘If His Eye…
‘When someone blushes with embarrassment, when someone carries away an ache, when something sacred is made to appear common, when someone’s weakness provides laughter, when profanity is required to make…
Listen to Varuna Clements Thalla, former Bloomberg TV anchor, interview Amrita her sister, a Clinical Psychologist and therapist with a Masters from Seattle, about the pandemic and how its affecting…
And in an old white house somewhere in Washington, an old man with blonde hair, shaped in a peculiar way, stood staring out of the window, “This old house gets…
In building a business, there’s a certain amount of time you spend, pitching sales for your business to succeed and then your business model will have to sell by itself!…
One day, while standing on the balcony of a tall building, I looked down and saw a funeral taking place in a cemetery. I also saw next to the same…
Her name was Ayong. She was to be our guide in Korea. Pretty, petite and smiling she stepped up to me and said, “Namaste!” “Namaste!” I replied, surprised she’d learnt…
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.