Is there a sense of dread, fear or huge unease you feel right now? Listen to the couple who laughed while bombs fell around them… Click Here ***************************************** Would love…
A famous actor talks about the night he overheard his little daughter praying. He was surprised to hear her saying, “Dear God, now what can I do for you?” The…
Today, the mood in India is to march to the border and slaughter those who killed our twenty brave men. And in the midst of this bristling rage, has come…
The other day a friend of mine was telling me she didn’t much care for some of our Indian standup comedians because they were so crass, and I realized how…
World lockdowns, and international flight shutdowns have impacted many families across the globe. Many husbands haven’t seen their wives for months, and some mothers and fathers, their children. I’m sure…
This morning just as I heard that someone I knew had passed away because of the deadly virus, I knew that many such deaths would start taking place and those…
As more people are falling sick to the stalking virus, I’m beginning to see that sadly a stigma is being cast on them and their families! Is the world actually…
Something that’s happening in this lockdown, is that family members, whether couples, siblings, or parents and children, are reacting to faults they are seeing in each other! Lockdown or no…
My mother, God bless her soul, always told me I was well loved because I had three mothers! What she meant was that I was loved by not just her…
With so many protests and debates over colour issues worldwide, corporates and industrial houses are jumping overboard to absolve themselves of colour discrimination, by changing names and titles. The latest,…
And as I opened the papers today, I was startled to see a former Madhya Pradesh minister and Congress leader Jitu Patwari tweeting that the ruling party had given birth…
Was sitting in my terrace garden this morning and heard the somewhat irritating sound of crows cawing out loud. Normally this means one of them is injured or there’s a…
These thoughts occurred while waiting for someone at a home for the aged a little before the lockdown: ‘As I look up from where I’m sitting, I see the most…
Some time ago, I got a call from a neighbour of mine. She was at the bank and sounded quite perturbed, “Bob,” she said, “there’s a poor man outside the…
He was there standing like a shadow near his building as I stopped my car. He waited for me to get down and guide him inside my vehicle, then grinned…
Millions fought the two world wars. Many, petrified by the sound of gunfire, terrified, each moment could be their last. And then from such as these and those who were…
No, it wasn’t the 14th of Nov, his birthday, and many if they’d seen him, would have recognized him by the red rose he so elegantly wore on the jacket…
“Oh no!” you whisper as you stare at the mirror. “What is it?” asks the wife, looking up in alarm, “You look pale, come we need to take you to…
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.