Cheap Car, Cheap Vaccine..!
In our country we love to pay little and get much. The mechanic who repairs my car knows this and was at my house this morning and led me to his own garage: “I have made the cheapest car in the world!” he said proudly. “No, no,” I told him…
No Victory Processions..!
The three men looked at each other fearfully, “We are being called murderers!” whispered the chief to the other two, “How ever could a court call us that?” “Next, they may hang us!” said the junior of the three, “I have an allergy to ropes, especially when they are round…
Speed Breaker Psychology..!
“In our country,” said the important looking official, from the transport department, “the speed breaker is a symbol. Do you know the kind of training the speed breaker makers undergo? “No,” I said. “I thought they were just ordinary masons.” “Ah, how little you know,” said the official passing a…
Rallies, Rivers and Regret..!
Now and then, one hears of the death of an MP or MLA succumbing to Covid-19! As I glance at the small picture that accompanies the newspaper article, I wonder what their last thoughts were as they lay in hospital bed under the deadly tentacles of the Green Monster. My…
The Defective Weighing Machine..!
Haven’t been to a station in a while, and I’m not sure they have weighing machines on railway platforms like there used to be before. This particular weighing machine, I remember, always had a long line of people waiting to weigh themselves, unlike the one next to it, “Why?” I…
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.