My Collapsible Coffee Kettle..!
Now I’m here in Scotland, but packed deep in my bag is my collapsible kettle so I can have my coffee every morning. I be one who likes my jug of coffee in the morning, and when I say jug I mean jug not mug, and then life’s good and…
Those Weird People Outside..!
“You need to go out once in a while!” the wife’s been telling me, “Otherwise a stage will come when the world outside won’t know you at all, or worse you might forget how to deal with the world outside!” “Ok,” I said, and decided to cash a cheque by…
Insuring My Assets..!
I was surprised to see a friend’s wife grinning at me this morning. My friend, a retired colonel, was a friendly sort of fellow, but his wife acted as if I were a foot soldier, too junior to converse with. “How’s business?” she asked after the grin. “I’m not in…
Doctored Discounts..!
With hospitals competing hard for business, I see the day fast approaching when their marketing departments may start working overtime to get customers. In my very vivid imagination, the phone rang at home this morning. “Who was it?” I asked my mother, as she put down the receiver white faced…
Bowling a Maiden Over..!
If you think our maidens are not into cricket you should hear what happened to my fictitious bachelor friend Prem when he returned home after a night out with the boys: His mother who’s been longing to see a bahu in her home looked at him strangely: “When will you…
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.