Asleep On Their Jobs..!
“…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..!
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…
Flirting Dangerously With Death..!
The Maharashtra chief minister proudly announces he was once a autorickshaw driver, that’s good, but I hope he’s not flirting with politics as I see rickshaws flirting with death: It lay smashed on the side of the road. Frail and pathetic, like a small defenseless animal that had been ripped…
Human Error..!
Indian cricket, I had heard a few years ago, was against modern technology that would reduce human error when it comes to umpiring decisions! Howzat! They would prefer the men in white coats to remain on the field. They would prefer to see his spiraling finger declaring them out or…
Noise and the Waterfall..!
We are a noisy people. I remember going down to another city for a wedding, and staying with a friend, who had given me the best room in the house. A room with a sit out on the terrace with even a little waterfall to soothe your nerves especially when…
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.