This happened many years ago! The skies were dark and a heavy cloud hung over us as we drove on roads that echoed the darkness above. We were two writers…
Many believe that competition is bad, that life is meant to be peaceful and calm, sitting on a mountain, or playing golf! Gary Player for years was a great competitor…
Aunty Toto was not her real name. Her name was Mrs. Dubey, and she had every kind of problem that you could think of, resting on her shoulders. Her husband…
Quite often I hear of children tragically falling into a deep borewell! I mischievously wonder what would happen if a politician falls into a deep hole: “There’s somebody fallen into the…
It wasn’t too long ago that scowls and frowns greeted me when I entered a store abroad: Salesman at counter, shop owner and all the customers lifting their heads none…
“I have many questions,” she said as she sat in my car. It was raining heavily, and I had offered to drop her home. “Bob,” she said, “I read what…
“Today our youth are so focused!” said a father of one of the youth to me proudly. “Focused on what?” I asked. “On what they want to do in life!…
The wife told me we had to visit the neighbors this morning. She said we should take a box of sweets along with us. “Whatever for?” I asked, “are they…
A few years ago, a scientist, Paul de Sousa of Edinburgh University announced at the BA Science Festival in Dublin that his team had succeeded in creating ‘virgin embryos’, or…
A moneyed friend of mine had just come back from a holiday he’d spent at Mahabalipuram, the temple town a few kilometres from Chennai. Since I’d been there a few…
And as I hear that the Prime Minister has repealed the three farm laws, I move into the future and hear people, especially the new historians of our country saying,…
Many years ago, I sat in an apartment in New York listening to an interesting argument between an elderly man and a doctor, who had been a childhood friend of…
There’s only one person who looks good in the Modi jacket, and that’s the Prime Minister himself! Today, every tailor, throughout the country is rolling out thousands of yards of…
This morning I laughed as I read a comic strip where two ugly sea creatures at the bottom of the sea, awful squiggly, wriggly tentacles spread all over sea bed,…
“We’re getting a visiting card made for you sir!” said someone on my staff, and I shuddered. It’s become fashionable today to hand out business cards or so it seems…
Yesterday was Children’s Day and I saw a small cycle and a little boy! Both doing a man’s job. He was the milkman’s little son, hardly seven or eight, and…
’Twas while walking in heaven a few years from today, I chanced to see two Israelites, trudging a little slowly, like they’d been forty years in the wilderness, so I…
Some nights ago I received a call from an old childhood friend of mine. “How’s your family?” I asked him after some time. “They’re fine Bob,” he said, “My wife…
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.