See You Soon..!
I nearly laughed out loud, when I saw headlines screaming that the American Secretary of State had warmly invited our Prime Minister to the US, for another meeting in the “near future.” The way some television anchors announced it, I thought perhaps the entire White House staff had got onto…
Being Called Aunty..!
This morning’s newspaper carried a rather interesting piece of news. A nurse in the UK had taken her colleague to court for calling her “aunty” and walked away not only with her dignity intact but also with a rather respectable sum of money. Now in India, if we started suing…
Leakage in a Flat..!
In a Bombay housing society, nothing unites people faster than a leakage. Not festivals, not elections, not even free samosas at the AGM. But one drop from the ceiling and suddenly the entire building becomes emotionally, technically, and spiritually involved. It begins innocently. A faint patch appears on the ceiling….
Walking Shoes and Common Sense…!
“Hello!” The voice came from somewhere near the floor. Now at my age, hearing voices is not something one admits easily. If I told my family I had heard a voice from the ground they would immediately stop discussing my health insurance and start discussing my mental insurance. So I…
No Heatwave In Greenland..!
Around where I live the temperature has climbed to forty-two degrees centigrade. Forty two. The kind of temperature where the sun does not merely shine. It interrogates you. You step outside for three minutes and return looking like a man who has just completed a marathon in a pressure cooker….
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.