Naughty Abhinandan..!
It made delightful news to hear Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman had been awarded the Vir Chakra! We all remember the video clip showing his capture in Pakistan, bloodied and roughed up, yet courageous and fearless. How, flying a highly inferior MIG-Bison fighter jet, he still managed to shoot down a…
Never Grow Old..!
While shopping the other day, I noticed I was paying more attention to the pavement I was walking on then the display in the shop windows. I was being so careful about slipping on the uneven tiles that I didn’t dare look up, “You’re growing old Bob,” I said to myself…
Let Your Rolex Go Missing..!
’Twas just the other day I read about a contest which offered a luxury sedan as a prize, and I thought, why not, wouldn’t mind getting one. Imagine my surprise when I opened the form and found the luxury car offered was the same model I was driving! I realized…
Pick Up the Baton and Run..!
Quite often I meet people who tell me about what they would have become if they had made some right decision years ago! “If only I had bought those shares Bob, I would be a millionaire now!” “Had I only listened to my instincts and married her, I would have…
Your Blade of Grass..!
The skies were dark and a heavy cloud hung over us as we drove on roads that echoed the darkness above. We were two writers in the car, my friend, whose first book published by Penguin, had been a runaway success, now stuck with no offers for his second, 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.