Building Statues, Changing Names..!
Empty bellied Indians, poor and impoverished looked up at the platform, where a pre-election meeting was going to be held. They clutched their caved in stomachs and waited with anticipated breaths as the contestant for their area heaved himself on stage, “Bhaiyo aur Behno!” he said, allowing the words to…
Hollywood Stories..!
The startling news that one third of Covid deaths in the world have come from India and that we had the most number of fatalities, may have shocked the world, but not our country as I started finding out: “Who is WHO?” said a man selling tea on the platform…
The Heat Is Killing Me..!
The stuffed teddy bear, belonging to one of my daughters when she’d been little, now sat in all regality on a little rocking chair, also belonging to my other daughter when she was little. The bear looked at me with its beady eyes, “Why are you pacing up and down…
Our Valuable Junk..!
People coming home ask me why I still keep most of my junk, and I tell them of the same conversation I had with my car. “Where’s the car?” they ask, and I tell them about the talk I had with my car: “Garages!” said my car angrily that day,…
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…
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.