Yesterday, as my car passed a liquor shop near Fort in Bombay, a notice in bold letters caught my eye: ONLY THOSE ABOVE 25 MAY BUY LIQUOR. I laughed. At…
“Who lives in that room?” I asked my friend. “Nobody,” he said. “Then why do you keep talking to him?” My friend looked puzzled. But throughout lunch, he had spoken…
“Sir, our newspaper has never been fuller,” said the editor proudly. The owner looked pleased. “What have we put on the front page?” “A full page advertisement for luxury apartments.”…
“They have put something in the school food.” The message reached a mother while her son was still in class. It showed a photograph of a child in hospital and…
“Sir, are you singing?” The question came from a man standing beside me at an imaginary government function. He had a programme in one hand and a notebook in the…
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.