The problem with the new airport in Mumbai is that every time you visit, there’s been a change, and this time I drove up a ramp that was meant for…
“It must be quite traumatic for you all?” I asked, “First you are all spent after having fought and won the elections, and then you are herded into a resort,…
And as everybody heaves a sigh of relief, two men scratch their heads, one hits a bald pate, the other his neatly coiffured grey hair. “Now what?” “I don’t know!”…
“Root canal job, and looks serious!” said the dentist as he peered into my mouth “Is it going to be expensive?” I asked. “This could take a few visits,” said…
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking! We are finding it difficult to locate the capital because of intense pollution! I will have to request each of you to…
Players win, players lose, players prepare, players practise, players get hurt but players get up. No matter what the outcome is, players keep playin..!. After years of hard work, Thomas…
While looking through my bookshelf this morning, I found a book, my dad had gifted me, before he passed away; the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. In the inside cover my…
Was enjoying my coffee on my terrace garden this morning, watching friendly squirrels and birds pecking at pieces of bread I’d thrown for them, then slowly began to feel restless,…
Maybe it’s the beard! “It’s certainly not any halo you have around you!” chuckles the wife, when I tell her that very often unknown people confide in me secrets that…
As my book DARE gets ready to be launched, I don’t miss an opportunity to go to book stores and see what the competition is like. “How are the sales…
Grandpa and Grandma always got very excited when they recalled the old days they were together. They made a decision, one day to make it “yesterday once more”. They made…
Attended a wedding the other day and as I looked at the young newlyweds, I whispered to my wife that the couple looked a tad too young to marry. The…
One day while sitting on the platform bench at a station, I saw the railways had put up a signboard picturing two ghosts talking to each other, with one saying…
“Youth dies in police custody! Over, 100 killed in police custody in Maharashtra in four years “ Times of India, Oct 30th “Just give me my son! Place him across…
This morning while walking at the park I accidentally brushed past a man. “Sorry!” I said. “Thank you!” he replied. I walked on a little puzzled, wondering whether I’d heard…
Pause for a moment in the middle of the hurly-burly of your everyday life and tell me, with your cell phone and computer always at your beck and call, do…
The President of the International Builders Association smiled as he received a standing ovation from his fellow builders as he entered the hall and walked up to the podium. The…
The husband watched her sitting up in their bed, head bowed, deep in thought. It was midnight. He watched awhile and then whispered to her, “Is something wrong?” “How do…
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.
