Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
There is a magical moment in the life of every old housing society when its tired walls suddenly begin to glow like gold. Paint does not do the glowing. Nor does mopping the staircase or replacing the broken tube lights. No, the glow begins when someone whispers the word redevelopment….
The watchman at the door gave me a smart salute and handed me a piece of paper to sign. ‘There is a managing committee meeting in the society office sir,’ he said. ‘What’s the emergency?’ I asked. ‘We have to choose a painting contractor, said the chairman, ‘to paint our buildings….
“Mr. Singh, our housing society secretary is coming to visit us now,” said the wife, putting down the phone. “Why?” I asked, “have we been using too much water? Have our kids broken any windows? Did our dog bite his maid?” “This is not an official visit,” said my wife…
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.
