Dare to Make and Keep Friends..!
I had an uncle, an officer in the army whose close friend was a truck driver. One day, when his friend was insulted for being in the profession he was in, my uncle walked out of the gathering saying, “If you can’t behave well to my friend, then you guys…
The Corona Virus, Death and YOU..!
Suddenly, fear has gripped the world. Not just a village or a township, not just a country, but six billion the world over are petrified. Every sneeze is looked with fear and every sniffle, suspicion. Political leaders who sneered and jeered are now refraining from playing Holi and leaving the…
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…
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.