The 51st Class Reunion..!
It was fifty years since they’d passed out from school. There were giggles and chuckles, lots of laughter as balding men gazed adoringly at grey haired women. They gasped to realize who each of them was, even as old friendships were reignited, and shy glances at first crushes were exchanged….
Lone Slipper on the Railway Track..!
He had decided to end his life, and the place he had chosen was the railway track just before the last station, and just after the level crossing. He had given it careful thought, but decided he couldn’t take it anymore. Yesterday, his wife and little son had sat terrified…
Mischief In Her Eyes..!
She was seventy, with mischief in her eyes! She’d always had mischief in those eyes of hers, as bubbling teen, those eyes beguiling her host of friends with their naughtiness, enticing young men to stray close, then mesmerizing them forever that they like petrified rock, never moved afar again from…
Alive after We Are Dead..!
While growing up, a favorite place I loved visiting was an aunt’s bungalow: There were guava trees and mulberry trees to climb, but what I loved most was playing with her dog Bruno. And then one day, I was told Bruno had passed away and the next time I visited…
The Cathedral Builder..!
Was walking along the aisle of one of the most magnificent cathedrals in the world, looking with wonder at it’s lofty columns, how they arched into holding the spectacular roof, way, way above my head when I saw the board inside: “Are you a Cathedral Builder?” I stopped awhile and…
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.