There is always one emotional scene playing out at every airport and railway station. A young man rushes towards his grandmother, drops his luggage, throws his arms around her and…
There was a time when the very thought of my children settling abroad filled me with dread. “What if somebody troubles them?” I would wonder. “What if they fall sick?…
I have finally discovered why Americans don’t walk. They have no vendors on their footpaths. I went for a morning walk in a little American town and was quite disappointed….
The minister leaned back in his oversized chair, lifted his cup of tea and smiled. A terrified official burst into the room. “Sir, another bridge has developed dangerous cracks.” The…
As the US celebrated it’s 250 years of Independence, I watched dramatic pictures of fireworks accidentally setting parts of the 143 year old Brooklyn Bridge ablaze. For a few anxious…
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.