“Hello!” The voice came from somewhere near the floor. Now at my age, hearing voices is not something one admits easily. If I told my family I had heard a…
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding about diplomacy. Many people believe diplomacy means compromise. They imagine two leaders entering a room with strong opinions and walking out with weaker…
The Anti Conversion Bill has been tabled in Maharashtra and suddenly the air is full of panic, discussion, and the kind of serious expressions usually seen only when somebody realises…
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…
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.