The vet shakes his head as he looks at my old dog, Jeff, “He’s on his last legs!” he says and it is painful for me to hear that. “What can we do to make him comfortable?” whispers my wife, and is told of a waterbed, to look after his…
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.
Bang! Bang! And Gun Control..!
‘Bang! Bang! Bang!’ Not once, not thrice either, but dozens of rounds, from a lethal AR-15 assault rifle! Not in the wilds of Africa or a barbaric area like the present Syria, but in Boulder, 45 kilometres from Denver, in the Unites States, purportedly the most civilized nation in the…
Teach Your Child to Fly ..!
As I drove to the airport that day, early this morning, my heart was heavy with sadness, I was going to say goodbye to my precious child and I drove in silence, “You okay dad?” she whispered, and I nodded, glad she couldn’t see the tears welling in my eyes,…
A Road Called Democracy..!
There are many who’ve tried to define democracy, and there are many definitions for the same, but when I think of democracy I think of a road. A road called Democracy, leading to one’s Utopia! It is a narrow road, but one on which we have to allow all others…
Mrs Kapoor’s Change of Heart..!.
“I am a very secular person!” announced Mrs Kapoor 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…
Loving Unconditionally..!
During Lent, a question asked frequently is, “Why would a God die on a cross for His people?” And then I have to explain what unconditional love is. Can we love someone too much? I know my God did, and that’s why His son died so that my sins could…
No Trumpets on the Other Side..!
There were trumpets and fanfare as his coffin was carried! A few months ago, I heard about a funeral in America of a famous religious apologist, attended by the former Vice-President of the United States, Mike Pence. I have listened often to this preacher and was always amazed by the…
Teach Them To Love..!
Like the man on the moon, there is an old man in Mars, and rumour has it that he knows more than he’s revealing, what happened to India’s little vehicle that landed on Mars. Anyway that’s another story, today, he stroked his white beard and looked through his telescope at…
Mr Pointed Ears..!
Two years ago, a new dog, with long pointed ears, entered the colony I live in. Nobody wanted the new stray to stay in the premises, and so all the watchmen were kept very busy, every day chasing it out of the gates, but somehow it managed to enter again…
The Defective Weighing Machine..!
Haven’t been to a station in a while, and I’m not sure they have weighing machines on railway platforms like there used to be before. This particular weighing machine, I remember, always had a long line of people waiting to weigh themselves, unlike the one next to it, “Why?” I…
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.