It was at the class reunion they met. She’d been the love of his life through all the years in school, but sadly he thought she’d never known, because he thought she’d never cared to know, since she was with everyone but him. But today, she looked at him, a…
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.
Diwali Discounts, and Bargains..!
It’s the festival season and it’s raining discounts and bargains! I looked at huge ads, they showed pictures and prices of scores of items that were going cheap. There were beard trimmers at two hundred and forty nine bucks, vegetable cutting machines for less than five hundred, air-conditioners going dirt…
Burdened with Work?
“Apply yourself..” Lee Iacocca Am putting up a play for two schools, both writing and directing them, and quite enjoying myself. But what I hear constantly from many, especially my well -wishers is, “Bob, why are you working so hard?” “Because, I love what I am doing,” I reply. Not…
Make Your Luck Improve…!
Many years ago, I was looking for a subcontractor to do a huge job, and had zeroed on one man and called him to the site for an interview. He came two hours late, and by the time he came, I gave the contract to another. “It’s my bad luck!”…
We Are Human…!
The other day, while assuring my daughter not to be afraid of a particular situation because God would see her through, she replied, “I know dad, but I’m human!” I thought about it and remembered an incident, related by a single parent: ‘A recently divorced man with full custody of…
The Turning Point..!
There are many of us who remember a turning point in our lives. It could have been a sentence in a book we read, or a speech we heard, or advice given by an elder or teacher in school. Very often, that turning point, or that life changing shot of…
Look Beyond the Bed..!
Let’s look today, beyond the bed! Two incidents come to my mind; the first, that of my friend’s father who was very sick. He had diabetes, a bad heart, and had once even collapsed on his doorstep, when my wife, a medical doctor, had been called to resuscitate him. After…
Hot Water..!
Last month, while driving through England, Scotland and Ireland, we stayed at nearly eight different places, some of them economical hotels and others Airbnb’s which were homes given on rent for the period of stay. Some of these hotels and homes were tiny, others spacious, some had fancy sitting rooms…
Don’t Say tata to Tata..!
Even as India bade a tearful farewell to a giant of a man, let us not bid adieu to the values the Tata name so firmly established in the country. For many decades people swore by the brand name of the Tata’s. Nobody thought of them as just another billionaire…
Friends Once Again..!
Something that is happening because of the latest kind of communal thinking is that of losing friends we made and kept for many years! I truly believe, only the renewing of those old bonds will destroy the sad polarization happening here! For years we have looked at each other as…
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.