Piloting You Above the Clouds..!
I sat in my seat next to the window, in the airbus that was taking me from Bangalore to Bombay the other day, and heard the voice of the pilot over the PA system, “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “We will be hitting turbulence for a while, but trust me,…
There’s No Place Like Home..!
A few years back I’d gone to spend a month in Europe. It had been an exciting trip and I’d made many friends and visited wonderful places but when I boarded the Alitalia flight back home, there was an incredible childlike ecstasy like nothing I’d ever experienced before. I actually…
Judging A Rapist..!
Have been reading ‘Papillon’ and enjoying every page of it. It was written by Henri Charriere, a Frenchman convicted of murder, imprisoned on an island, over eighty years ago, and how he tried to escape again and again, one portion touched me, and here he talks about a Dr Germain…
Sale! Sale! Sale! BUT DON’T BUY..!
Festival sales have started! Newspapers have full page ads blasting ridiculously low prices into your eyes and TVs into your ears! Every item you don’t require is on sale! Yes, you heard it right; don’t require! Have you ever realized that what you need you’ve already got, and what’s on…
BANG! Shooting Dead a Sikh Officer..!
Bang! Just one bullet! Not from the gun of Houston Deputy Sheriff, Sandeep Dhaliwal, who as a police officer had the authority to shoot, but from the gun of a motorist he had stopped. The man ran behind Officer Dhaliwal, pointed his gun to the back of his head, and…
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.