Jesus, at School..!
It was the annual parent’s teachers meeting at the local Jewish school. The teacher, a lady with a long,hooked nose, looked at the parents sitting in front of her, they were many and she wondered irritably how long it would take before she finished with all of them. “Next,” she…
4th Man in the Fire..!
Good ole Kapil Dev! Not only did he lead the cricket team of 1983 to a World Cup victory, but he set hearts afire yesterday as he led the same team to announce their complete support to the protesting girl wrestlers in Delhi: His whole World Cup team, except Roger…
Business by the Good Book..!
Many books have been written on how to make millions, but few of these truths come from the most successful bestseller of all; the Bible. My uncle, an Indian Air-Force fighter pilot, who went on to become one of the most senior officers in our air-force, which meant being at…
Dressed up, but Nowhere to Go..!
A few years ago, India witnessed a hanging! Between the hangman and the media, the late Dhnanjoy Chatterjee was made a hero before he died and a martyr after his death. Hangman Nata Mullick who executed the rapist and murderer fell sick after coming out of Alipore Jail and said…
Ruth, Naomi and Your Spouse..!
“Wherever you go, I will go!” says Ruth, even as her mother-in-law, with both her sons dead and no money in her name, poverty staring at her, decides to return to the land of her birth. Naomi frees her, tells her to remain in her own comfortable land, tells her…
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.