This evening I went to watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with two younger friends. Three men walking into a theatre as though we ourselves had just ridden…
My father died around twenty-five years ago. Strange how fathers become clearer after they leave. While they are alive, we are too busy arguing with them, avoiding them, or pretending…
“His personal life has nothing to do with his politics!” I have heard that sentence shouted with great confidence whenever a politician is caught in some scandal involving affairs, dishonesty,…
A few years ago I sat through a very long motivational talk. The speaker shouted passionately about hard work. “Work hard!” he thundered. “Success comes only through hard work!” For…
“When did cheating become clever?” I asked a friend the other day. “Since winning became more important than honour,” he replied. And that answer has stayed with me. I watched…
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.