Handling Angry Words..!
“Miss,” says the little fellow running after his class teacher, “He called me a bad word!” The wise teacher looks at her young student, “And what did you do to provoke him to say that?” No, I’m not defending the boy or girl who said an ugly word, but very…
A Bigger Fool than the Fool..!
The only certainty of life is death. And yet most of us continue living as if death will never visit us. We do not prepare ourselves for it and live as if we are going to live forever. A little girl lay dying and she was afraid. Her friend, the…
Oops..!
Yes, oops, is what the people in Mumbai said, who drove their cars across the newly repaired Gokhale bridge, connecting Andheri East and West, drove high above the railway line, and then found to their shock they could not drive to Juhu, because the Juhu arm of the bridge was…
Perfect Pictures for the Public..!
It was the strangest photo I’d seen. It showed two men shaking hands with each other, one his face gleaming with a huge smile, the other a look of absolute puzzlement on his face. The gleaming smile was meant for the cameras. The gleaming smile gentleman had turned his face…
Are You a Trump?
As I read about Trump ranting and raving about immigrants, I remember my father telling me about travel in his days. Those were days, he told me, when one hardly reserved seats when travelling but took one’s chances in crowded, congested, claustrophobic third class compartments. First you arrived, along with…
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.