Polite Outside, Crass Inside ..!
“Your husband,” I told the pretty lady standing at the entrance of the park where I walk everyday, “is such a polite man!” “Why what does he do?” asked the lady. “He wishes everybody during his morning walk,” said the chairman of the committee which maintains the park. “He helps…
It’s Only a Pimple..!
As a teenager, I quite often faced pimples, and sometimes a single pimple sprouting out of my face could wreck my confidence, my evening and even make me lose a date! I remember an ad that used to come out, “If pimples are your problem, use Clearasil!” Tons of the…
Goin’ Up In Smoke..!
“Want a smoke?” asked my friend Ramesh as we sat in the college cafeteria, many years ago. “No,” I said, but watched fascinated as Ramesh pulled out a pack of twenty from his shirt pocket, lit a cigarette with a flourish, and holding it expertly between his fingers brought it…
Putty, Paint and Professional Pretense..!
It was a narrow bridge one climbed, from once a lazy station, onto the road above. Elphinstone Road station in Mumbai was hardly used previously, except by mill workers of old, going to work or returning to their homes. And then in the last twenty years the whole area changed:…
Breaking the Spirit of Not Just Dogs..!
Every day I saw him with his terrified dog. Leash in one hand and stick in the other, he screamed, shrieked and shouted commands to the poor dumb creature and if the four legged fellow failed to comprehend or refused to obey, the stick swished the air and came down…
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.