The Chisel or Hammer Method..!
It was a terrible sound coming from the house next door and having been in this line of work before, I realised their walls could come crashing down. I went over and met my neighbour, “They’re just repairing the roof!” he said. “No!” I said firmly, “They are breaking your…
Writing People Off..!
Many years ago while doing my Masters in Literature, we had a professor named after an eighteenth century English poet. Now, this professor loved to dissect poetry, and I didn’t. I loved poetry for its fullness, whereas he, like a surgeon operating on a patient, looked for its soul in…
Not Just Overloading A Lift..!
In a shopping mall in Mumbai seventeen people got stuck in a lift for five full hours! They cried, shouted, screamed for help and to top it all had an infant with them who started panicking and didn’t stop bawling. The seventeen when rescued later with the help of a…
Don’t Keep Sally..!
It was a video clip of a lion, most probably an escapee from a zoo walking freely on a city bridge! The person shooting the video, had even rolled his glass down to get a closer shot, obviously excited that he had a forward that would go viral, but in…
Fooled by a Golden Glow..!
The other day someone told me his sister had bought a phone worth a huge amount. “But your sister’s just picked up a job!” I said. “With her job, she applied for a credit card!” I was told. And today, that’s what I see; with no money in the wallet…
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.