The Modi Jacket..!
There’s only one person who looks good in the Modi jacket, and that’s Mr Modi himself! Today, every tailor, throughout the country is rolling out thousands of yards of cloth stitching these sleeveless new fashion statements for men of all shapes and sizes, who look strikingly ridiculous as they strut…
Book of Strategies and Surgical Strikes..!
“Any more strategies? Your midnight one wasn’t very effective, nor the secretive early morning swearing in!” “I don’t know, but they seem to be beating me nowadays!” “I noticed!” “I wonder whether they’ve peeked into my book!” “What book?” “The one I use to make my moves! This one!” “It…
Politicians in Resorts..!
“It must be quite traumatic for you all?” I asked, “First you are all spent after having fought and won the elections, and then you are herded into a resort, to keep you from being poached by a cash rich party?” “It is all because of those poachers!” said an…
Being UnIndian..!
With patriotism being questioned, sedition being defined and a strange nationalism being the criteria for motherland loyalty, we may have a confused people in the country: In this scene from my sometimes fertile imagination, my daughter, who stands at attention when the national anthem is played even on TV for the cricket…
Alligator in a Gutter..!
You and I have seen videos of snakes being pulled out of flats and bungalows, but I was pretty astounded to see an angry alligator laboriously hauled out of a Mumbai gutter. I realized it’s jaws had not been tied too tight and rushed to the cage where it was…
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.