Those Cheap Cars Around Us..!
“Our engineers burned the midnight oil to produce this car,” said the MD as he showed me into his factory in the outskirts of the city, “and after the lockdown, we thought this was just the car for your highly strained pocket!” “And this car will cost less than a…
Losing Liberty ..!
’Tis not often Liberty Island ferrymen around New York show agitation. Yes, some hundred odd years ago they were a tad perplexed to see the Statue of Liberty hoisted up and made to stand all by herself on what was once an old fort island, but after that, through storms…
Uniform Eating Code..!
Since the powers at the center are intent on a uniform civil code, which could lead I’m sure to a Uniformed Eating Code my friend from Russia who was on a visit and who was a diehard non- vegetarian decided she would become a veggie for the period of her…
Our Desi Lie Detector..!
Increasingly every day, I’m hearing about the use of the lie detector by the police. For many years I’d thought that the polygraph machine was only used with the consent of the accused party but I’m beginning to realise I was wrong and that now it’s a fact that detective…
Train Travel Was Once Safe..!
“..Three rail accidents, 21 dead in two months..” 31st July, Times of India. In a second- class compartment somewhere in India a grandmother looked out of a train window with fear in her eyes. “Once upon a time,” she said as she looked down at her two little grandchildren, “train travel was safe!” “Grandma,”…
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.