“You need to go out once in a while!” the wife’s been telling me, “Otherwise a stage will come when the world outside won’t know you at all, or worse you might forget how to deal with the world outside!” “Ok,” I said, and decided to cash a cheque by…
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.
Worker Ants of India..!
The only ‘Made in India’ product, we should be proud of sending abroad, and worth exporting is the product of peace and non-violence that was taught by Gandhiji and that won us our freedom. Otherwise, the very concept of making something that foreign powers have innovated just makes us worker…
A Calming Sea..!
One very fond memory I carry is getting on to my old motor bike and riding to the sea. Any guesses who my pillion was? No, not some pretty lass but an old uncle. We drove to the beach and then sat on the sand and gazed into the distance….
Somebody who’s a Nobody..!
It’s one of the most impressive old structures among the heritage buildings along the sea front, looked after with total dedication by a tall Anglo- Indian gentleman with a booming voice. The building would have gone to the dogs if not for this one man. And yet I remember him…
God’s Extempore Speech…!
“… do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given to you at that time; for you are not the ones speaking, but it is the Holy Spirit…” Mark 13 vs 11 The young sardar who was driving the car, taking me from…
Like Rahul, Ignore the Boos..!
The stock markets are getting shaky! All because one man who has been continuously booed is causing supposedly invincible opponents to start looking worried! Rahul Gandhi, for nearly a decade he has been joked about, lampooned, ridiculed and booed by the prime minister and the ruling party, but suddenly the whole nation is looking…
They Don’t Know it All…!
While running my dad’s interior designing firm many years ago, I was called to the house of a potential customer who wanted to do up his place. I sat with a design book in hand and waited to begin my presentation about the type of interior we could design for…
No Hammer Test Needed Sir..!
There was a knock on my door. Outside I found two busy looking individuals, “We are engineers, we’ve come to do a structural audit of your flat sir!” said one of them. “That’s wonderful!” I said, “Please check all the beams and pillars and see whether these old walls are…
Become a Bold Woman..!
Even as we discussed the Karnataka rapes yesterday and how women are being made to look weak because of insecure men, begs the question, should women wait for men to become confident, before they can walk into spaces which traditionally men have occupied? “We can’t wait anymore for our insecure…
Shocked by the Karnataka Rapes?
This is not about one woman shouting ‘rape’ but hundreds coming out and screaming of the atrocities by the Deva Gowda family! Ever wondered where it started? Well, not in the politician’s home or through his upbringing but in our collective, national feeling about women. Instead of empowering women, by…
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.