“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…
“Sir, there is a journalist at the door!” “Tell him we have already issued the press release.” “He wants to attend the Press Council meeting, sir.” “Why?” “He says he…
“Wanted,” I announced, “brave Indians for immediate placement at strategic locations!” “Security guards?” asked my neighbour. “Heroes!” “For a film? My nephew has six packs and no expressions.” The nation…
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.