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….
An Aerial View and Ground Zero..!
It’s just been an hour since I returned from an incredibly lovely holiday, and in my imagination, a local politician standing for the state elections walks across as I get out of the car. “How was the trip sir,” he asks as I rub my back, “I suppose, you took…
Boiler Size, Bullying and Bluster..!
While others play badminton, watch Netflix, or read a book for ‘timepass’; a term I find quite cute, I’m caught very often watching steam engine videos. I believe there is no ferocious, powerful, robust, beast, like the steam engine of yesterday. Even now whenever I want to imagine something more…
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…
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.