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…
Some Stories Never End..!
She opened the bathroom door. He lay dead inside. She called me, her voice hysterical. They had, had a drink the night before, and another and another and another, and he already with liver ailment had staggered to the bathroom and she to bed. It was not a bed she…
Taking The Easy Road..!
We walked towards the mountain, my friend and I. We knew we had to cross to the other side. We had heard, the valleys across were full of milk and honey, that jobs were aplenty, people sweet and friendly and opportunities enough to achieve our dreams. But we also knew…
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.