Entry Refused.!
As I watch Trump disallowing outsiders into his turf, I wonder why those who want to go to his land of milk and honey don’t make their own country, as good or better, so they can say, “Ours is now better than yours sir!” I imagined a day like that:…
Your Tight-Fitting Shoes..!
There’s something strange and peculiar happening in our country: Many have given up their freedoms, just for the sake of a narrow narrative, a narrative being repeated that their religion is being robbed from under their feet. And since the subject of feet has crept in, even if it came…
Our Gilded Cage..!
Religion, the one thing that should be most private in our lives, is bandied across as a political tool in our country, and as people are trapped, they find everything taken away from them in taxes, as they continue living in this ‘gilded cage’! Here’s a simple story. Hope you…
An Uneasy Maharashtra..!
Though the NDA allies have won a sweeping victory in Maharashtra, there’s still a sense of unease all over the state. Hardly any firecrackers went off on the day of the results, and victory celebrations have been low key and with not much publicity. It’s as if winners feel the…
Education without Educating..!
With many state governments insisting that all students, whatever their marks, get admission in college, I wondered how the colleges were going to cope. The principal of the local college walked with me into one of the classrooms in his college. “It’s going to be tough for you”, I said….
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.