“Look straight ahead,” said the man taking my photograph for Aadhaar. I had already stood in a queue, given him my address and pressed all ten fingers on his machine….
“I’m just leaving, Bob,” said my friend over the phone. “I’ll be there in ten minutes.” In the background I heard his wife say, “At least put your trousers on…
When Mumbai’s municipal corporation asked Dia Mirza to speak about firecrackers and pollution, it probably thought it was doing something useful. But, Mumbai BJP chief Ameet Satam invoked tradition, the…
Last night, I watched the diyas outside homes, their little flames pushing back the darkness. No speeches. No publicity department. No enormous photograph of the person who had lit them….
“Why are you smiling?” asked a gentleman, looking at his neighbour with the suspicion normally reserved for someone carrying an unattended suitcase. “Have you seen the news?” His neighbour nodded….
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.