When Asked for Your Honest Opinion..!
“Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead..” Chinese Proverb How often we are approached by someone who wants an honest opinion about his short story, a poem, maybe a decision he has made or even what you think of the interior of his house:…
Shame..!
Was listening with tears in my eyes to a powerful talk by Monica Lewinsky! (Snigger! Chuckle! Giggle! Laugh aloud!) I know what images it conjures to your mind; a fallen woman, a slut, whore, home breaker! But even as you utter such in your mind, even as the world shouted…
Profiting from Suicide..!
A few months ago, a president of a social club called an organization which was to teach him leadership training and said, “I want my money back, I have no time for the course!” “Sir,” said the coordinator, “You know our policy, we don’t refund money, but we will do…
Poor Shane Warne..!
Poor Shane Warne. Found dead in his hotel room. What a way to go and at fifty-two! To have played cricket for so many years he must have kept himself very fit, and it’s something we all should do, for after all, in just a day, your heart will likely…
Don’t Die like the Dead Sea..!
Many friends send me pictures of them floating on the Dead Sea! But the Dead Sea is dying! The Dead Sea’s water level is declining by more than a metre a year, and its surface area has shrunk by around a third since the 1960s. The Dead Sea is really…
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.