A Little Too Much Wine..!
T’was a fancy restaurant we went to in my imagination. The waiter not only had stiff upper lip, but same surgeon had turned his nose up in the air. “What will you have sir?” he smirked. “Wine!” I said “Which one?” “Red!” “Which one sir?” “Any wine that’s red!” I…
Gunshots in America..!
And as another mass shooting takes place at Maine, in the US, leaving eighteen dead, I am reminded of the frequent school shootings happening inside classrooms around America, having parents live in fear as they bid their children goodbye at school gates. “One for you dad! One for you mom!”…
Throwing out the Elderly..!
If you visit many of our old folk’s homes, you will see old men and women kept there, not because they have nowhere else to stay, but because their children threw them out. They either signed their homes over to their children or the children started eyeing the space the…
One Long, Two Short..!
From my home I can hear in the distance, the trains going by, and then I hear the dreadful sound, the train hooting; one long and two short blasts. Again, one long and two short! I know what grim tidings those hoots bring. It says the train has run over…
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.