Was reading with interest that our Prime Minister’s present visit to the US is to boost India-US defense industrial ties, and felt good we as a nation under the PM were slowly becoming self-reliant in our defense production. Then with quickened interest I read that the PM would also lead…
Robert Clements is a journalist and newspaper columnist. With an estimated 6 million readership, his column, Bob’s Banter is published in over 30 newspapers and magazines in nearly every state in India, as well as in the top newspapers of Bangladesh, London and Dubai and is also translated into Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.
Hold Fast to Your Dream..!
“Bob, I also wanted to be a writer!” is something I hear at practically every party or gathering I go to. “Oh!” I exclaim politely, “Then what happened?” “People dissuaded me from being one!” they say dolefully. “And you compromised?” I ask. “Yes!” they whisper. Ah well it’s a story…
Sweat It Out.!
Every morning during my morning walk, I sweat it out, but that bit of hard work gives me good health. I meet a number of dreamers everyday, who dream of making it big and becoming billionaires, but who believe success and luck will fall into their laps: Gary Player for…
A Sleepy Fishing Village..!
Two thousand years ago, it was a sleepy fishing village that changed the world. With time on my hands, I walked along the road and found it led to the sea shore. I stood and watched the sea and then as time stood still, I saw the village. Like a…
Tooth Fairy..!
She had got up twice during the night I heard later, hoping to catch the tooth fairy at work. The next morning the two little teeth still lay under her pillow. The fairy had forgotten to deposit the promised silver coin. ‘Daddy,’ she said as she got out of bed…
Apply Yourself.!
“Apply yourself..” Lee Iacocca As fathers struggle to make ends meet and mothers to bring up their families, you hear them longing for the day when they’ll have nothing to do. “Ah Bob!” they say, “I long for the day when I can put my feet up…” “And not put…
helplessness to Independence..!
“Come back!” I shouted at my dog a few years ago, when he was alive, but my huge German-Shepherd pretended he hadn’t heard my voice as he chased the poor, thin, undernourished, straggly bitch, who suddenly stopped, turned on her back with her four legs in the air, and looked…
Boris and His Lockdown Parties..!
From his hairstyle I knew he was a Boris Johnson fan, and watched as he, Boris like, swept his unkempt, unruly hair into a more unkempt, unruly Boris mess. “Looks like your former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is finished,” I said, “The Partygate report about his partying during the Covid…
Hot as Hell..!
“How’s the heat in Bombay, Bob?” asks a friend. “Hot as hell!” I say, wiping the sweat flowing down my brow, then ask myself, “What do I know of hell, that I can compare the heat around me with the fiery furnace below?” At the moment nothing, and hopefully won’t…
Fooled by a Golden Glow..!
The other day someone told me his sister had bought a phone worth a huge amount. “But your sister’s just picked up a job!” I said. “With her job, she applied for a credit card!” I was told. And today, that’s what I see; with no money in the wallet…
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.