Choral Music and the Sound Man..!
Since I love choral music every once in a while I’m asked to come as a judge to hear choirs perform. Before the pandemic an event turned out to be quite an interesting day for me. I sat with two other judges and listened to nine choirs rendering beautiful choral…
Lift Him off Your Neck..!
It was an appreciative audience the old man had, as he stood in the middle of the park, ranting and raving against a particular community. “How well he speaks!” said a spectator standing nearby. “How would you have reacted if he spoke for, and not against that community?” I asked…
The Real Monster..!
The Whatsapp message that came to me was from a phone number of an Indian in America, it said, ‘Terror has no religion’. However it was not making a statement, it was mocking a particular religious community, with statistics and data that had sarcasm dripping from the pen of the…
The Colours Of Holi..!
And as India soon erupts in colour, what a delightful scene it is! Reds and greens, blues and orange, yellows and browns, splashed, sprayed, squeezed, and suddenly joy and laughter erupting from town and village, city and nation, gully, street and highway! Yes, this year, Holi will certainly be subdued,…
Sailing a Ship..!
What if Earth is a ship on which we are sailing? What if each country has a certain portion of the ship to look after? One gets upper deck, the other engine room, another the cabins, and others the lifeboats, hull and so on. I’m sure our main interest would…
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.