“…Sleeping on your job can get you sacked says Supreme Court…” The Times of India Visited a government office yesterday and a job that could have been finished in half an hour took three, all because of employees sleeping on their job. That’s when I remembered a Supreme Court judgement…
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.
Not Buildings or Cemeteries..!
“Bob!” he said as he opened the blueprint, “This is going to be a fourteen-story building! On the ground floor we will have our bookstore, on the next floor a conference room, then the residences of all our employees, and above offices!” “Offices?” “Yes, we will rent it out and…
The Train of Life..!
It was a 1947 steam engine. I looked at the pictures of it. It was going to do a heritage run and the whole city was excited last Sunday. Every station that the train passed was crowded with young and old. The old telling the young that the iron monster…
No Difference in a Baby’s Cry..!.
“I am a very secular person!” announced Mrs Kapoori one day to the girls at home, who were her paying guests, “I don’t care if you are Punjabi or Bihari or South Indian!” And then she heard the noise. It was the sound of the door opening in the empty…
Our Country’s Strong Leaders..!
As I glanced at the papers today, all of them mentioning different leaders in our country, I came across some thoughts by Steve Goodier on leadership, and added some of my own. But I want you to read it even as you look at our country and judge for yourself…
The Catfish In Your Tank..!
On a visit to a physiotherapist, an exercise she prescribed for a painful right shoulder was the putting of my left arms against my right. “Clasp both your palms together and push against each other.” She said, “Civil war,” I said as my left pushed my right. “Muscle,” she said,…
Just Beyond The Leaf..!
“Goodbye!” I used to shout. “Goodbye dad!” they shouted back. “Goodbye” I whispered and watched the retreating figures of my children. I waited at the window and watched them as they slowly walked down the colony drive to the gate, and waved to them as they turned and waved to…
Spreading Laughter, Through Inner Peace..!
He’s gone now, to the great beyond, but many years ago, as I returned from my walk, I used to find a slightly oldish man waiting for me, his back bent, body trembling with Parkinson’s, but eyes staring eagerly at the gate. As soon as I entered, they lighted up;…
Blood Stains in a Church..!
In my travels through Spain, Portugal and many other European countries I’m often told of some famous church I should visit in the vicinity, “Built in 1566!” says the guide. “Fascinating!” I tell him, “And what happened in the church?” “There are many statues of kings, tombs of famous people…
Hindenburg and Misguided Nationalism..!
As the might of superior American artillery rains on a heroic, yet poor, poverty-stricken billionaire, our battered countryman stands valiantly crying out to the world and fellow countrymen, not to buckle down under the unfair onslaught but rally their numbers and fight back against herculean colonists, bullying him into submission!…
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.