Everyday I watch as a very thin mother carries her school going child to the bus stop. “Can’t she walk?” I asked, fearing there was a problem with the little…
Many in our country are afraid of being called secular. Does it mean anti Hindu, anti Muslim, does it mean pro minority? Strangely a similar situation exists in America. The…
I’d always wanted to start my own advertising firm, and when I set it up a few years ago, many told me I should have done so when I was…
A few years ago, I had the privilege of being the MC for the annual Navy Week in Mumbai, and later it was on the lawns of Navy House, I…
As our newspapers are filled with more and more politicians waiting to be heard, here are a few witty words on politics and the politician: Politics is the gentle art…
Nearly a decade ago, my dear friend, Father Lancy Pinto fr om St Xavier’s, allowed me to interview his mother who was turning hundred, and today I thought it would…
I looked at the banners I was making: We want Freedom of speech! We want Freedom to Speak! We want Freedom of Expression! All banners for the next march, morcha…
We all love looking at old photos don’t we? We show our set of old snaps to all and sundry, maybe trying to tell people we were once young and…
Very often nowadays I hear people I know quite well, exclaiming they are senior citizens. It’s as if they have suddenly come to a chasm, jumped the other side, and…
The other day when I went onto the treadmill, I was asked why I didn’t play music while exercising and realized quite often I prefer silence! The world today hates…
As I saw pictures of the nineteen floor illegal buildings in Cochin being brought down after the Supreme Court ordered it, and saw other illegal villas in Alibagh being torn…
An old priest once stopped me and said, “I would love to meet your dad!” “Why?” I asked laughing, “I hope you don’t want to complain to him about me?”…
This morning I watched him wish me with a Namaste! I have always been fascinated by this simple greeting, but today looked closer and found it very touching. There was…
This happened a few years ago: My driver was a little confused that morning, “Sir, but why are you insisting on your old glasses?” I could well understand his being…
It’s not that there was a storm that night, just a bit of a strong breeze, but I was puzzled when I saw lots of sky the next day outside…
Goons enter the JNU college. They thrash professors and students. The Union President, a girl, Aishe Ghoshe is beaten on the head with iron rods, thrown to the ground, kicked,…
One of the tabloids some time ago had most of its first page blank; boxed in the middle in small font was the grim and distressing news that ‘Today’s news…
On my last visit to Chicago while walking through a college campus, I was pleasantly surprised to see a museum piece in the compound. It was an ancient wagon, the…
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.