If the World was a Ship..!
In a play I’ve just written, I have waiters in a restaurant singing, “If the world was a café! Yes, what a beautiful world it would be,’” sing the waiters in barbershop quartet style, but today I’d like to ask, “What if Earth is a ship? What if each country…
Gun Control and Agents of Fear..!
Bang! Bang! Bang! And sadly, another twenty-one bangs from the shooter’s deadly gun, saw children sprawled all over the classroom, dead! What kind of a stupid country is this, that has one of the safest security forces in the world, and still allows people to carry guns to defend themselves?…
Clever Packaging or Good Content?
Am I a better salesman than a content giver? This is a question I wrestle with, even as I try to check myself every now and then to see whether the content of my motivational talks, workshops, and also my writing justifies the sales pitch! Last Diwali, I received many…
Veto the Bullies Veto..!
It’s time the veto was vetoed! Where else but in the United Nations do you have a few nations with power to tell the world that black is white? That’s exactly what the veto does. Instead of having a democratic equality a veto gives power to a huge bully to…
Settling Her Down..!
“Bob, please look for a suitable boy for my daughter!” said the voice of an old friend of mine on the phone. “So your daughter has finally decided to get married?” I asked surprised. “No, but I want her to settle down!” said the mother. Settle down! What a sentence;…
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.