The Shark’s Mouth..!
As I hear with sadness about more and more of our youth getting addicted to drugs and alcohol, I remember the story of two fish moving along the water together and who come across what looks like a huge cave. “Let’s go in and explore,” says the smaller of the…
Bad Backup..!
The advertisement was huge and attractive. It talked about a waterproofing job the company could undertake that would guarantee my terrace would not leak the next monsoon. I liked the advertisement. I rang the number. I hated the voice. “Hello!” I said, “I saw your advertisement in the housing magazine,…
And the Mandir Groaned…!
Be it Diwali, Christmas, or Navratri, we need to abide by the laws about noise or loudspeakers put in place by governments and courts, but I do remember, this man… He walked by the revellers at the local Navratri night. Walked straight to the makeshift temple with all eyes on…
A Broken Plastic Bangle..!
I could feel the tension. The man serving chai at the corner stall looked at his two customers as they drank his tea, and in his eyes was a plea for them to drink faster. He watched them for a moment more as they slowly sipped the piping hot tea…
When You Exaggerate, You Lie..!
“….to stretch the truth is to tell a lie..” A man entered a dentist’s clinic and sat down to have his teeth fixed. “I can feel a huge cavity with my tongue,” he said. The dentist examined the man’s teeth and said, “It’ll only be a small filling.” “But why…
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.