Dare to be Unpopular..!
Over three decades ago, while a young Rotarian, a game was played by the over hundred members of my club, and it was about who they felt was most popular. I was pleasantly surprised to find I had won. Two years later, there were some issues I felt I had…
Like Rahul, Ignore the Boos..!
The stock markets are getting shaky! All because one man who has been continuously booed is causing supposedly invincible opponents to start looking worried! Rahul Gandhi, for nearly a decade he has been joked about, lampooned, ridiculed and booed by the prime minister and the ruling party, but suddenly the whole nation is looking…
No Passion, No Victory..!
A few years back many learned pundits tried to analyse and find out why Hillary Clinton lost the election when she stood against Trump. Just before the results, every exit poll, news channel and publication predicted she would win. But she lost! I was in the US when two of…
Put Your Load Down..!
As a little boy, I used to wonder about some tall stone platforms that looked like ancient Druid structures just next to a railway crossing we had to pass, and had asked my dad what they were. “They are platforms built years ago for villagers coming into the city to…
Born with no Ears..!
Today I shudder to see more and more photographs and pictures of donations and acts of giving. “Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing!’ say the holy scriptures. But do we listen? All I see are photos of acts of giving, circulated to everybody…
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.