There is something very mysterious that happens to us when we step into a lift. Outside the lift we are one of the most talkative civilizations on earth. In trains…
Yesterday morning I received a rather urgent phone call. “Bob,” said a voice on the line, “the engineers have come to check the beams and pillars of my flat.” The…
War has finally arrived at our dining table. Not with tanks, not with soldiers marching past our windows, but with something far more terrifying. The possibility that tomorrow morning our…
Around where I live the temperature has climbed to forty-two degrees centigrade. Forty two. The kind of temperature where the sun does not merely shine. It interrogates you. You step…
India won. Not in kabaddi, not in gilli-danda, but in cricket. We thrashed New Zealand, and a few days earlier we had done the same to England. And that is…
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.