Our Safe Place..!
Yesterday I was invited to a party and my little granddaughter was also there. Now she’s just learnt to walk and she tottered between all the tall people in the room, and maybe to her they looked like giants. I could see a bit of fear in her and some…
Friends Once Again..!
Something that is happening because of the latest kind of communal thinking is that of losing friends we made and kept for many years! I truly believe, only the renewing of those old bonds will destroy the sad polarization happening here! For years we have looked at each other as…
Stop Switching Channels..!
It’s a day and night journey by car between Dubai and Israel. In Dubai, the Women’s T20 championship is being held, and cricketing countries wait with bated breaths as their women slog balls all over the field. A car’s journey away, women and children lie dead and wounded, maimed, crippled…
The Drunk Girl..!
This happened a few years ago, when as the chairman of my colony, the doorbell rang, and a watchman stood outside my door. It was two in the morning. “Drunk girl on one of the building’s staircases, sir!” he said. I called out to my daughter to come with me. We…
Reservations for You and Me..!
Today, in our country, everybody wants reservations, with some leaders in the country who have divided the people saying that even our beloved country should only be reserved for those who worship in one particular way! And as the word, ‘reservation’ gets bandied about, my thoughts go to ‘reservations’ on…
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.