Had been invited to speak at a book-launch and during the evening asked the new author when he planned to write another book, “I plan to take three months off, and go to some place quiet, where I am alone, and write!” he said. “Don’t take three months, take three…
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.
On Not Getting Sleep..!
Ever so often do I hear people telling me how they lay awake through the previous night. They make it sound like the end of the world. “You lay awake all night?” I ask laughing. “Yes,” they say, “yes, don’t laugh Bob!” “And did the troubles of the day appear,…
The Heat, It’s Killing Me..!
Hot, isn’t it? “The heat it’s killing me!” you grumble from your airconditioned room, and then the doorbell rings. You open the door, and see your garbage collector or maid or driver or maybe the watchman, “What?” you ask angrily as the blast of hot air hits you. You look…
Ye Children Of India..!
“Something troubling you ma?” I asked, looking at my mother and also the mother of more than a billion and a quarter who were part of her offspring.” And then I watched as the mother of over a billion looked at the calendar furtively, “I don’t think I’ll rest till…
Replacing the Morning Walk..!
Maybe it’s because I couldn’t complete my morning walk today, being slightly under the weather that made me look for another alternative to walking. I stared at the advertisement: A walk machine! All I had to do was place my still lazy feet on the machine without getting off the…
Your Decisions Make You..!
“I’ve made many wrong decisions in my life,” said a famous person, “But I’m proud of every one of them, because I made a decision!” Life is all about making decisions isn’t it? So often we go through life hoping a problem will go away without making any decision, because…
Is Your Job Done?
It happened a few years ago, when a young Indian army officer serving in the dangerous Jammu and Kashmir region, received information that terrorists were firing indiscriminately onto the public at the Jammu Railway Station. Reaching the spot in a few minutes Lt. Triveni Singh and his group of commandos…
Stop It! You’re Not Old..!
Was in Bhopal a few months ago conducting a workshop on writing and public speaking, and having an extra day before heading home, was offered a sightseeing trip by a few students. There was a lot of Bhopal to be seen and I must have whispered, “I’m getting old,” once…
Stop Being a Dinosaur…!
There are many who fight shy and even condemn technological and scientific advances in our world. But by doing so they’ll become dinosaurs in our modern age. Here are some funny stories of those who struggled to catch up: A writer who used pen and ink was persuaded to change…
He’s Waiting..!
On a visit to New York, while doing my morning quick walk along the East River in Manhattan one morning, watching fancy boats cruising down, the water gently flirting with the riverbank, and on the other side, fast cars swishing down roads at breakneck speed, when I saw ahead of…
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.