Remembering the Old Landline..!
“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…


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.