A Bloodied Country..!
“Yours is one helluva bloody country,” exclaimed my English friend as he walked out of the airport. “On the contrary,” I protested, “we are a very peace loving, non violent people.” “Then why all the bloodshed,” said the Englishman. “Bloodshed?” I protested again. “Yeah there’s blood all over your land….
A Finishing School For Men..!
“A finishing school for men?, “I asked the owner of the school, “I have never heard of anything so strange.” “And why not?” asked the owner, as he directed a painter to give finishing touches to the board outside, “if our women can win beauty contests at the world level,…
If Shoes Could Speak..!
Mine did, just now! “What’s happening?” asked my dusty brown pair of shoes, now looking almost black after lying unused for the last eight months or so, “We used to be your source of pride! You even got a family member to bring special polish from New York, for us…
The Woman Angel and the Policeman..!
When a policeman from Bihar allegedly insinuated in the word, ‘aukat’ that actress Rhea being a woman does not have the right to speak out, he uttered what many men think about a confident woman. And in my imagination, the same policemen or someone like him after passing away walked…
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.