This was a few years ago at a family outing: In front of me were mountains with clouds resting on them, I looked at their sides gently tapering down to the valley below where the Krishna river flowed unconcerned and unperturbed by the grandeur above. From where I sat in…
There’s No Place Like Home..!
A few years back I’d gone to spend a month in Europe. It had been an exciting trip and I’d made many friends and visited wonderful places but when I boarded the Alitalia flight back home, there was an incredible childlike ecstasy like nothing I’d ever experienced before. I actually…
Jesus and Lynching..!
Mob lynching comes from Bible, says Mohan Bhagwat (RSS Chief) …India Today, 9th Oct Ah sir, so a gruesome word like ‘lynching’ has been cleverly ascribed to Jesus, a man who lived on earth without sin? There were many who twisted such lines during his life, so that he could…
Reach the Unreachable Star..!
We all have a dream don’t we, something so lofty, so seemingly impossible that the world would laugh if they even knew what it is: But listen with me to the words of the ‘Impossible Dream’: sung by Don Quixote De La Mancha. To dream the impossible dream, To fight…
Aarey Forest and Creatures of the Night..!
And in the night they came into Aarey Forest; the woodcutters! With blackness as cover, they pulled out electric saw and iron axe, startled the sleeping birds in the trees, their young in their nests, and brought their homes crashing down. Creatures of the night, who come out, while all…
The Art of Being Bored..!
Something I remember with a smile is walking into my children’s rooms years ago, and seeing one or the other staring out of the window listlessly, “What’s up?” I would ask, and knew what they were going to say, as they yawned in my direction and said, “Daddy, I’m bored!”…
Judging A Rapist..!
Have been reading ‘Papillon’ and enjoying every page of it. It was written by Henri Charriere, a Frenchman convicted of murder, imprisoned on an island, over eighty years ago, and how he tried to escape again and again, one portion touched me, and here he talks about a Dr Germain…
Bank Collapse: Who Is To Blame?
“Who told you to put all my earnings into that bank?” shouts a distraught businessman as he looks at his weeping wife, “Now it is your fault we are ruined!” In many homes, it’s either a wife or a husband crying out, “You are to blame!” But who is to…
Her Body, A Temple..!
They sat together on the rocks and watched the waves come in. She felt his arms around her and felt safe and secure. “Thank you, God,” she whispered, “for giving me someone who loves me so much and who I love so very much too!” She heard the sound of…
BREAKING NEWS! Sedition In My Neighbourhood..!
There was the sound of a police jeep and heavily armed policemen entering my neighbour’s compound as I stepped onto my balcony, “What’s happening?” I shouted to my neighbour. “Sedition!” he shouted back as he opened the door and let the police in. “I called the police to arrest my…
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.