The Cockroach’s Last Laugh..!
This must have taken the wind completely out of the sails of the ruling dispensation. For years they had a favourite weapon. It was ridicule. Every speech, every television discussion, every social media exchange seemed to contain the same word aimed at the opposition leader. “Pappu.” It was repeated so…
Of Mice and Men..!
“There is only so much work a mouse can do!” I nearly fell off my chair. First, because my computer mouse had spoken. Second, because it was rebelling. This was a dangerous development. If the mouse could unionise, what was stopping the keyboard from demanding annual leave? What if the…
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….
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.