“Be gentle!” whispered his boss. The policeman looked puzzled. “With whom, sir?” “The protesters!” “Ah,” said the policeman, adjusting his baton. “Special instructions!” And there, dear reader, lies the problem….
“Restrained, Detained, Contained!” I read aloud, admiring the newspaper headline. “Rats?” asked my neighbour. “Young protesters!” “Oh,” he said. “For a moment I thought the municipal pest control department had…
“Sir, are you a Christian?” asked the customer. “Certainly!” beamed the businessman. “Church every Sunday, committee meeting every month, and prayer before every meal!” “I was asking because of your…
“Why do you do it?” I asked Natrajan Iyer. A reasonable question for a man who had relentlessly taken on a builder, largely alone, while even members of his own…
“Today’s inconvenience, tomorrow’s comfort!” announced the board beside a road that had apparently resigned from being a road. “How reassuring,” I told the gentleman standing beside me. He was trying…
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.