I call it a national daily because it carries all the nation’s advertisements. You open it in the morning and the government has built a bridge, launched a scheme and…
It saddened me this morning to read a news item of an elderly man going up the stairs at Mumbai’s KEM Hospital. He had one leg in plaster, so he…
“Look straight ahead,” said the man taking my photograph for Aadhaar. I had already stood in a queue, given him my address and pressed all ten fingers on his machine….
“I’m just leaving, Bob,” said my friend over the phone. “I’ll be there in ten minutes.” In the background I heard his wife say, “At least put your trousers on…
When Mumbai’s municipal corporation asked Dia Mirza to speak about firecrackers and pollution, it probably thought it was doing something useful. But, Mumbai BJP chief Ameet Satam invoked tradition, the…
Author : Robert Clements
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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.