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,…
To Slap or To Shake..!
Israel says it’s made a significant dent. The US says it’s made it’s point. Iran, not to be left out, declares a glorious victory. It’s the kind of global group project where everyone insists they did all the work. And what did they all do, exactly? Slap each other? Yes,…
Jumping Off A Burning Plane..!
Ahmedabad, last week. A plane crashes. Catches fire. The horror unfolds in seconds. Two hundred and forty-one people perish in a flaming coffin. And one man—just one—jumps off before the inferno claims him. He doesn’t pray for the pilot to say something. Doesn’t wait for the safety card to start…
Wrecks and Our Ambitions..!
Sometimes, when the Wi-Fi is down at a seaside resort, and the coffee tastes suspiciously like punishment, I stare at the ocean and wonder if there’s more beneath the surface, and oddly enough, my thoughts sail straight to shipwrecks. Yes, shipwrecks. Not the ones caused by WhatsApp groups or political…
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.