The National Coward Award..!
How have we reached such a terrible national situation today? Where friends look at one another with distrust, neighbours peep into each other’s houses with suspicion and mobs rule the streets with police fishing bodies out of Delhi drains? It all begins when we are too much of a coward…
Writing From A Hospital..!
Was in a hospital, in a waiting room when I wrote this piece: All around me are solemn faces, hushed voices, anxious looks, people looking worriedly at each other, scared, frightened: Watching a doctor as he comes out of a closed door, with apprehension and even terror! And at some…
Have You Ever Been Falsely Accused?
It’s a message I’ve just received from a dear reader that makes me write on being falsely accused. The message I received was, “Bob, can I have a small story to comfort a friend of mine who has been falsely accused in public?” “Do I have a story?” “Do you…
Freedom to Scratch..!
The heat has suddenly become worse in the city but worse than we humans, its animals who suffer most. But my dog prefers the heat than coming into my air-conditioned room from where I write. Not that he isn’t reacting to the heat, he is. I know he finds it…
Shortcuts..!
A few years ago, a missing Air India Dreamliner belly piece was found lying on the runway! One hundred and fifty passengers nearly faced death because of the sheer callous, negligent and reckless attitude of an engineer of the national airline, who, the newspapers say, instead of fastening the ‘belly…
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.