Throw Out the Other Slipper..!
Once when my wife had gone to New York to see our daughter, I was on my own, and quite often ordered food from hotels nearby. One morning it was spicy vadas which I’d got out of bed dreaming about! The hotel sends me a lot of sambar, which from…
Your Four Wives..!
As I hear about a guru, who mesmerized the youth with his clever words, and now lies in hospital, and as I remember scenes of the billionaire wedding, I’m reminded about the story of a king with four wives. He loved the fourth wife the most and adorned her with…
The Flag, a Fruit of the Root…!
The house with a flag flying atop it, looked with disdain at the neighbouring home, with no flag on it, “No flag?” it asked. “It’s an invisible one I fly!” said the home with no flag, “the people within my house don’t need a flag above expressing what they believe…
Imitation Marble and Our Faults..!
Sometimes there is a typo error in my column! Once in a way not one, not two, but three! Normally within minutes of sending the column, I get readers responding from all over, some sending me an emoji of appreciation, others coining a reply. Sometimes it’s a dozen, often a…
Marriage Maintenance..!
The newly married couple sat in front of me yesterday talking about their honeymoon, “He wanted to go and see a volcano at four in the morning,” she said, “But I said no way, I’m not coming with you!” “So did you go alone?” I asked and the man nodded,…
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.