Bulldozing Their Way Through..!
There is a dangerous illusion in power. That if you have the numbers, you have the nation. That if a bill is passed, the argument is over. That once the Speaker says “ayes have it,” dissent has magically disappeared. It hasn’t. It has only changed location. When Parliament passes laws…
Sailing Rudderless..!
It was the tiniest part of the ship. I stood on the deck, looking at the vastness around me, the towering mast, the thick ropes, the heavy iron chains, and then my eyes fell on something so small that I almost laughed. That little thing? Surely not. “That’s the rudder,”…
Manipulator or Master Builder..!
Yesterday, at an AGM, I saw a liar and manipulator being destroyed. Not with drama, not with sirens or headlines, but with the quiet implosion that happens when one’s own tricks finally trip them up. This man had thought himself clever. He placed his stooges in committees like pawns on…
Don’t Want to be a Doctor..!
The newspaper headline stared at me like an unblinking eye: “Boy with 99.99% ends life on day of departure to medical college.” A teenager from Chandrapur, Maharashtra, bright as a shooting star, ended his own story before it had even begun. His suicide note said it all: “I don’t want…
When Two Bullies Fight..!
As I watch the US and Russia’s ongoing tiff, and India scampering between them like a schoolboy carrying notes between two brawling seniors, I’m reminded of a golden rule I follow in life, and very often in the housing society I live in: When two bullies fight—move out of the…
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.