Don’t Say tata to Tata..!
Even as India bade a tearful farewell to a giant of a man, let us not bid adieu to the values the Tata name so firmly established in the country. For many decades people swore by the brand name of the Tata’s. Nobody thought of them as just another billionaire…
Do You Dare Ask?
All the change for the better that’s happened in our world, is because people simply asked. Why am I a slave, and not free like the white man? Cried the blacks in America, even as they were aware of a constitution stating, all men were equal, even as they saw…
Distracted on Life’s Highway..!
Once while driving down the highway I thought, “What a drive!” As I drove I noticed tire marks that crisscrossed the road. “Burst tires!” I realized. Tires of motorists who had not checked their air pressure before venturing onto the highway. I noticed that these tire markings veered onto the…
The Guilty Will Not Be Spared…!
How reassuring it was to hear the Chief Minister of Maharashtra say in a firm voice that the guilty who were involved in the running over and killing of Kaveri Nakhwa, ‘will not be spared and the next day bulldozers were sent to break down the portions of the bar…
No Hammer Test Needed Sir..!
There was a knock on my door. Outside I found two busy looking individuals, “We are engineers, we’ve come to do a structural audit of your flat sir!” said one of them. “That’s wonderful!” I said, “Please check all the beams and pillars and see whether these old walls are…
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.