Festival sales have started! Newspapers have full page ads blasting ridiculously low prices into your eyes and TVs into your ears! Every item you don’t require is on sale! Yes, you heard it right; don’t require! Have you ever realized that what you need you’ve already got, and what’s on…
BANG! Shooting Dead a Sikh Officer..!
Bang! Just one bullet! Not from the gun of Houston Deputy Sheriff, Sandeep Dhaliwal, who as a police officer had the authority to shoot, but from the gun of a motorist he had stopped. The man ran behind Officer Dhaliwal, pointed his gun to the back of his head, and…
Said the Robin to the Sparrow..!
“What?” I angrily asked the two birds that morning while they looked in at me, outside my window. Were they laughing at me? They seemed to be giggling. I didn’t have time for their childish behavior and slammed the window shut. This happened a few weeks ago, I was exhausted,…
Brexit, Boris and Merry England..!
“What are you doing dear?” asked Prince Philip as he watched his wife the Queen of England juggle her head into a piece of gold wire. “What’s that funny thing you’re trying to place on your head?” “It’s the British crown!” said the queen haughtily, “It’s just that I haven’t…
Raped, then Jailed..!
A young student files rape charges against a former Union Minister, and even as the alleged rapist is led off to prison, we hear that higher ups have retaliated by arresting her and putting her in jail! A poor girl from Unnao sees family members killed and injured as she…
Building CRASH With No Support..!
As I read about the collapse of yet another building in Mumbai, I find that this one had repairs going on, when the staircase crumbled, bringing down portions of the wings on both sides. A little ten-year old girl was killed. “How can a building fall, when it’s being repaired?”…
Guidelines for Fliers Not to Get Offloaded..!
With planes returning to base even if passengers ask for what was previously called ‘service’ and remembering how a passenger, Dr David Dao, was dragged out of an aircraft and severely beaten up by the crew of United, I, with a huge dose of humour which I hope airline crew…
Just A Spider Sir..!
I swear its eyes were furious as it looked at me. It had built it’s web from the sides of my bathroom window, across, to a decorative steel pole a foot or two away, and by accident, as I strove to put on a switch, my hand had gone through…
When YOU Give, God Gives YOU..!
Was reading the morning papers and was struck by a dramatic piece of news: Bill Gates with a fortune of over a 100 billion dollars, was still the second richest man in the world, even after having given away nearly half his fortune! Incredible isn’t it? A few days ago,…
Henpecked Husbands..!
Once in a while, when going with a friend to visit someone I am warned before I reach, “he is a henpecked husband!” “Oh!” I whisper, and go with quite some apprehensions of a wife pecking away at every statement her husband makes, and he sitting forlorn and dejected in…
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.