And as the elections for Maharashtra and other states draw near, what I see is an air of despondency among some of the political parties, as they look at a…
As maids and domestic help get scarce and expensive, it won’t be long before what my imagination just conjured up soon becomes reality: I looked up to see the wife…
“He is fearless in expressing his opinions..” Nirmala Banerjee, Abhijeet’s mother. Did you know Tihar jail was where Nobel Prize winner Abhijeet Banerjee spent ten days of his life? Till…
I see Modi looking at the opposition and saying, “Can’t you see I’ve done a good thing in Kashmir?” and the opposition replying, “Can’t you see you’ve done a bad…
Wrote this while in college, and remember my mother typing it out for me for my college mag. Fished it out, and while reading it, find that nothing’s changed: He…
It lay fallen a little distance from the clothesline that held my clothes. I walked over and looked at it, they were certainly not mine; gaping holes stared back at…
This was a few years ago at a family outing: In front of me were mountains with clouds resting on them, I looked at their sides gently tapering down to…
A few years back I’d gone to spend a month in Europe. It had been an exciting trip and I’d made many friends and visited wonderful places but when I…
Mob lynching comes from Bible, says Mohan Bhagwat (RSS Chief) …India Today, 9th Oct Ah sir, so a gruesome word like ‘lynching’ has been cleverly ascribed to Jesus, a man…
We all have a dream don’t we, something so lofty, so seemingly impossible that the world would laugh if they even knew what it is: But listen with me to…
And in the night they came into Aarey Forest; the woodcutters! With blackness as cover, they pulled out electric saw and iron axe, startled the sleeping birds in the trees,…
Something I remember with a smile is walking into my children’s rooms years ago, and seeing one or the other staring out of the window listlessly, “What’s up?” I would…
Have been reading ‘Papillon’ and enjoying every page of it. It was written by Henri Charriere, a Frenchman convicted of murder, imprisoned on an island, over eighty years ago, and…
“Who told you to put all my earnings into that bank?” shouts a distraught businessman as he looks at his weeping wife, “Now it is your fault we are ruined!”…
They sat together on the rocks and watched the waves come in. She felt his arms around her and felt safe and secure. “Thank you, God,” she whispered, “for giving…
There was the sound of a police jeep and heavily armed policemen entering my neighbour’s compound as I stepped onto my balcony, “What’s happening?” I shouted to my neighbour. “Sedition!”…
Since my wife has gone to New York to see our daughter, I’m on my own, and quite often treat myself to ordering food from hotels nearby. This morning was…
Festival sales have started! Newspapers have full page ads blasting ridiculously low prices into your eyes and TVs into your ears! Every item you don’t require is on sale! Yes,…
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.
