Soap..! ( A True Story )
’Twas the most unusual of gifts, a hamper full of different soaps! Now, don’t make fun of me dear readers for receiving this gift, I’m sure there be many who will, say, ‘Bob, you must have raised a stink with the speech you gave for them to have given you…
Happy Inside Your Heart..!
A beautiful brochure caught my fancy; there was a picture of a blue river, with villas on either side, and each villa having its own swimming pool. As I looked at it, I thought of my own villa in Lonavala, I’d sold, when I’d got into full time writing a…
Look Beyond The Boos..!
“We’ve had enough!” screamed the pretty college girl, her eyes flashing with anger as she stood in front of the audience, “and we’re packing up and going! We entered this contest to try and win a prize not to be booed by you all!” There was consternation; shouting and jeering…
Drunk Girl..!
The doorbell rang, a watchman stood outside my door. It was two in the morning. “Drunk girl on the staircase sir!” he said. I called out to my daughter to come with me. We walked to the building near the gate. She was sprawled on the first floor landing, my…
A Meaningful Good Morning..!
A little boy and his grandfather walked down the road one morning. The boy felt his grandfather’s grip tighten and he wondered why. He watched another old man walking towards them. “Good morning!” said his grandfather. “Mornin,” said the other old man stiffly as he walked by. “You don’t like…
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.