A Nobel Prize for Fiction..!
Just two weeks before the budget, a silver haired lady looked up from her writing as her economist husband approached her somewhere in the capital, “What are you writing this time?” he asked. “Giving the finishing touches to my new work!” she said. “Fiction?” he asked as she nodded, “Your…
A Wolves Fairy Tale…!
As I watch a bishop being set Scot-free by a court which found too little evidence given by the prosecution to convict him, I would like to repeat an old fairy tale, giving it a modern twist, in a twisted world: There once lived a little girl called Red Riding…
Not Just Cheap Cars..!
How often before finding out more about the quality of a product, we go in for something cheaper based on the price and regret later. Thus, came this imaginary experience of a cheap car: “Our engineers burned the midnight oil to produce this car,” said the MD as he showed…
Police were Mute Spectators..!
A line appearing almost daily in newspapers, after murders in broad daylight, religious places vandalized, or assaults committed is that the ‘police were mute spectators!’ I decided to visit a police station on the wings of my rather vivid imagination and find out why policemen had become mute spectators. ‘Sir,”…
Inflation and a Hundred Rupee Note..!
I opened the morning paper and frowned as I read headlines about inflation in India, “This is ridiculous!” I muttered to myself. “What is dad?” “This inflation business, there’s no inflation, but because there’s no news, papers make a big hullabaloo about prices going up, scaring everybody, especially voters before…
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.