Hey Moses, Your Wife Is Black..!
Till 1967, seventeen states in the USA, banned interracial marriages! That same year the law was found unconstitutional and thrown out. Immediately after that public approval of interracial marriage rose from around 5% in the 1950s to around 80% in the 2000s! Which means that because of a stupid law,…
Let’s Produce Harmony..!
’Twas just three years ago, seventy-three voices, including mine, and an orchestra of thirty-one raised their voices, violins, violas, cellos, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, french horns, trumpets, trombones, and a timpani, making glorious music! There must have been a smile on Mozart’s face somewhere in the heavens as he heard Indians…
The Foreign Hand..!
No, I’m not speaking of China or Pakistan, as I see you pondering and wondering who else it could be! Years ago, Prime Ministers like Indira Gandhi and others, when faced with domestic turmoil, would point the entire country towards Pakistan or China, and unite every Indian, regardless of religion…
Lyncher or Linchpin..!
Lynch is a bad word today, with mobs roaming the country lynching for the smallest reason and the Supreme Court moving in to frame an anti-lynching law. But there’s a choice, would you be a lyncher or linchpin? “Linchpin?” you ask. Journey with me to yonder village; you hear the…
Namaste..!
Her name was Ayong. She was to be our guide in Korea. Pretty, petite and smiling she stepped up to me and said, “Namaste!” “Namaste!” I replied, surprised she’d learnt the Indian greeting. It was while we were in the bus she turned to me, “Do you know what it…
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.