Intellectuals as Terrorists..!
I blinked twice when I read what the Delhi police told the Supreme Court. They said that sometimes intellectuals are more dangerous than a terrorist. Was this the voice of a non-intellectual thinker because it was a terrible statement. One of the first signs that a nation is toddling towards…
The Editor and the Piano Player..!
There are two kinds of people who can make or break your creative spirit. The first is the editor who thinks he is a writer because he knows grammar. The second is the piano player who believes he or she is a singer because she can read music. Both forget…
You Who Survive..!
Oh how I relish my morning coffee, and it was while I was into my third cup this morning—that I stumbled upon a video that made my heart pause mid-beat. There he was, Dr. Jonathon Blake from Pennsylvania. A firm atheist, logical to the point of clinical coldness, the kind…
A Vice-President Resigns..!
Seventy-four. In most families today, that’s the age you’re expected to finally go on that Europe trip, take up pottery, or chase your grandkids around the living room—not resign from the second-highest office in the land! But that’s exactly what happened. Our Vice President, seventy-four and still sharp as a…
The Captain, Compassion, and Suicide..!
The world, it seems, is no longer whispering. It’s murmuring loudly, speculating wildly, and pointing fingers with grim certainty at the cockpit of the doomed Air-India aircraft. “Suicide,” they say. “The Captain was depressed.” And with that, the captain of Flight 171 becomes both accused and judged—without trial, without evidence,…
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.