Halfway through a dip in the sea, I once swallowed a mouthful of seawater and announced that the sea was against me. A friend swimming beside me said, “The sea…
When I heard that the bank strike had been called off, I wondered what would have happened if it had gone ahead. I haven’t visited my bank in months. But,…
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.”…
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.