Full Steam Ahead..!
Many decades ago, on long train journeys, my father would take me to the end of the long platform and show me the mighty steam engine which pulled us. “Do you know how it works Bob?” he asked once. I shook my head, “Pressure!” he said. “The steam builds up…
Life Jam..!
Thought I’d spend the evening at the club last night and as we drove towards dusk, I noticed there was a traffic jam on the other side of the highway. We drove along freely watching the jam stretching for miles on end, when suddenly my daughter remarked, “Dad, do you…
Giving Away Your Shirt..!
‘…When we share—that is poetry in the prose of life…..’ Sigmund Freud Something terribly disgusting in our country is the glamour our political leaders portray through their ostentatious cars and homes they live in. The money they lavish on themselves so blatantly could easily feed a hundred families for a…
Passion, It’s Free..!
If today’s column has come in a little late, t’was because I was in the plane flying home from New York. And even as I flew something that stands out vividly in that city is it’s passion! A passion for enjoying work with subways and roads filled with millionaires and…
My Visiting Card..!
“We’re getting a visiting card made for you sir!” said someone on my staff, and I shuddered. It’s become fashionable today to hand out business cards or so it seems to me, as cards, nineteen to the dozen are dished out to me. “Pleased to meet you,” I say extending…
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.