Replacing the Morning Walk..!
Maybe it’s because I couldn’t complete my morning walk today, being slightly under the weather that made me look for another alternative to walking. I stared at the advertisement: A walk machine! All I had to do was place my still lazy feet on the machine without getting off the…
Stop Being a Dinosaur…!
There are many who fight shy and even condemn technological and scientific advances in our world. But by doing so they’ll become dinosaurs in our modern age. Here are some funny stories of those who struggled to catch up: A writer who used pen and ink was persuaded to change…
Such Simple Solutions..!
Life’s problems aren’t as complicated as we make them out to be. Most have very simple solutions: A large truck attempting to go through a railway underpass found itself stuck between the road and the girders above. The emergency crew sent out by the truck owners tried without success to…
Ransomware and the Postman..!
All over the world people look at their computer screens waiting for Ransomware or some cyber terrorware to pop out and devour them and their computers. In a home one evening, a father looked at his two children and sighed, “I guess we’ll have to go back to the postmen…
No Hot Water Sir..!
Went out of the city two days ago, and as I entered the fancy hotel where I was put up, I was told by the manager, “Sir, you have been given a super deluxe room!” “Thank you,” I said, quite impressed by the way the ‘super’ was stressed by 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.