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 Loose and Unprotected..!
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 Loose and Unprotected..!

April 2, 2024 Robert Clements 3
Not Bothered by the Stare…!
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Not Bothered by the Stare…!

March 3, 2024 Robert Clements
Granny not a Nanny..!
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Granny not a Nanny..!

January 28, 2024 Robert Clements
Your Common Courtyard..!
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Your Common Courtyard..!

January 10, 2024 Robert Clements
Offering to Help but Not Wanting to..!
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Offering to Help but Not Wanting to..!

November 15, 2023 Robert Clements
A Collector’s Item..!
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A Collector’s Item..!

July 21, 2023 Robert Clements 4

Many years ago, a young priest told me he was going to do his doctorate. Now, I know that doctorates for priests in our country are a dime a dozen and many small colleges and seminaries offer the same, “Why do you want to do it?” I asked. “So that…

It’s You..!
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It’s You..!

June 22, 2023 Robert Clements 1

I remember once many years ago, catching a flight and standing in line for my security check; suddenly a family of eight walked down the line to the head of the queue and the father and another gentleman who I presumed was the uncle started pushing all the members into…

Inaction for a Greater Cause..!
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Inaction for a Greater Cause..!

May 30, 2023 Robert Clements 4

It wasn’t the fact that she was murdered in broad daylight that got me horrified, nor was it the fact that the public did nothing to save her from sixteen stab wounds, and even more that a concrete slab was used to smash and bludgeon her head. What got me…

Asleep On Their Jobs..!
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Asleep On Their Jobs..!

February 10, 2023 Robert Clements 6

“…Sleeping on your job can get you sacked says Supreme Court…” The Times of India Visited a government office yesterday and a job that could have been finished in half an hour took three, all because of employees sleeping on their job. That’s when I remembered a Supreme Court judgement…

Funeral Attire or Hospital Gown..!
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Funeral Attire or Hospital Gown..!

January 15, 2023 Robert Clements 14

They came in fancy funeral attire! Friends and relatives in their Sunday best, carefully preserved for occasions like this; a funeral of a young relative! I’d come early, and expected nobody! Because no one had come when she, with kidneys failing, and no money in the bank had dialed me…

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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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