This morning I removed the cushion on my seat and suddenly the view outside my window was glorious. Till then, I had been looking down from my perch at barren…
I visited the Mahakali Caves, in Andheri East, Mumbai. They are over two thousand years old. I imagined instead of car and auto, I could hear the steady ring of…
Was called as a guest speaker for a meeting the other day, answered a few questions after my talk and was sitting down, when the vote of thanks was given….
Was in a hospital, in a waiting room when I wrote this piece: All around me are solemn faces, hushed voices, anxious looks, people looking worriedly at each other, scared,…
It’s a message I’ve just received from a dear reader that makes me write on being falsely accused. The message I received was, “Bob, can I have a small story…
“Why are we going to India dear? You really don’t want to do business with them?” “Five million cheerleaders from the airport to the stadium he wants me to see!…
In any book on warfare, such a title means, to get to know your enemy to realise his or her weaknesses to finally beat them, but yesterday, while doing my…
My young neighbour Kumar, whose wife is expecting a baby, rode in the lift with me to the car park below, “How’s the wife?” I asked pleasantly. “Very excited!” said…
In my very vivid imagination, I saw the wife bouncing into my study, “There’s some government officials to see you!” she said. I wandered into my sitting room, and watched…
The heat has suddenly become worse in the city but worse than we humans, its animals who suffer most. But my dog prefers the heat than coming into my air-conditioned…
This isn’t from my book DARE but could well be one of the chapters of DARE TWO! Many times I meet people who tell me why something can’t be done….
He fell! He hadn’t seen the paver block sticking out, uneven, arrogant, catching his worn out, treadles soles and throwing him forward with a lurch. He lay quietly, waiting for…
The price of gold’s gone up, the cost of diamonds too So what do I get my beloved wife, what is it I should do? I dare not get her…
There are many who sell their soul! They sell pure thoughts, their honesty, their beliefs in exchange for a favour, which reminds me of the legendary Dr Faust who in…
And as he stood at the border, making faces and shouting slogans at the man across who was busy, not playing cricket, but minding his country, he heard a voice…
It was the funniest scene in cricket I’d seen in a long time: A batsman swinging his bat and missing all six balls bowled to him! No it was not…
A few years ago, a missing Air India Dreamliner belly piece was found lying on the runway! One hundred and fifty passengers nearly faced death because of the sheer callous,…
It was during a talk I was giving, when halfway through, I saw the eyes of the whole audience move to the side of the hall. I looked and saw…
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.