Crazy People like Crazy Gates..!
It was a class reunion, “Hi, aren’t you Charles who got 100%?” “Yes!” “How you doing? And what are you doing?” “I’m a banker, and might make it to manager next year!” “And you? You were known as Crazy Gates, weren’t you?” “Ah well, I guess you know I’m the…
Nehru and Napoleon: Men of Stuff..!
As I look at today’s world leaders I wonder where men and women with stuff in them have disappeared; statesmen, who when they rose to speak, spoke without jeer and sarcasm. Leaders who were loved and revered not feared. Where have such people gone? There’s this story that when Napoleon…
Worship, Rape and God..!
As I look at those who raise their hands in worship in a church, temple or masjid, I realize for me my soul lifts up in praise to my Maker and Creator at other moments! I saw so much of this ecstatic worship within me, as I sang with and…
26/11-A Night of Terror..!
Rat-a tat-tat-tat-tat-tat, went the machine guns of the terrorists! On that Night of Terror eleven years ago, I was just a few feet away from the deadly carnage that killed hundreds! The Press Club where I was spending that evening and finally the whole night, along with the Editor of…
PMC Bank and a Clever RBI..!
Have been watching the debacle of the PMC Bank which is the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank, and how the RBI, controlled I’m sure, totally by the government, is dealing with the crisis. Have noticed today, that there is no more a sense of fairness: It’s either majority versus minority…
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.