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Remembering the Old Landline..!
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Remembering the Old Landline..!

July 1, 2024 Robert Clements 3

“What’s that dreadful sound?” shouted my niece fearfully as we all laughed and she looked embarrassed. “That’s the sound of the landline phone!” explained my cousin to her. “Landline?” she asked, “What’s that?” “There was a time,” I explained as the elders in the room smiled, “when phones, unlike your…

       Gone Are The Days..!
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       Gone Are The Days..!

January 12, 2024 Robert Clements 5

Years ago one of the first songs I loved playing on my harmonica was the Negro Spiritual, “Gone Are The Days.” It was a sad song and had a plaintive melody but ended with the words, “I’m coming!” as the black slave sang out to his God that he would…

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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.

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