Today’s Inconvenience, Tomorrow’s Comfort..!
“Today’s inconvenience, tomorrow’s comfort!” announced the board beside a road that had apparently resigned from being a road. “How reassuring,” I told the gentleman standing beside me. He was trying to retrieve his shoe from the mud. “For whom?” he asked. “For tomorrow’s people.” “What about today’s people?” we shouted…
No Journalists, Please..!
“Sir, there is a journalist at the door!” “Tell him we have already issued the press release.” “He wants to attend the Press Council meeting, sir.” “Why?” “He says he is a journalist.” “How inconvenient! Does he also expect us to invite farmers when we discuss farming?” I imagined this…
The Ministry of Moving Lips..!
“Sir, are you singing?” The question came from a man standing beside me at an imaginary government function. He had a programme in one hand and a notebook in the other. “I am listening,” I whispered. “You have to sing,” he said. “I am watching your mouth.” I looked at…
Don’t Pull Down the Props..!
As a youngster, I loved wandering into religious groups and debating with their leaders. I was not always searching for truth. Quite often, I was searching for an audience. One day, after I had delivered what I considered a brilliant argument against some religious belief, a boy older than me…
New York and the RSS Chief…!
I am in New York at the moment, and so is RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. Mr Bhagwat stood before an American audience and spoke beautifully about unity through diversity. He declared that different religions may follow different paths, but humanity remains one. He said diversity must be accepted, respected and…
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.