Diwali Discounts, and Bargains..!
It’s the festival season and it’s raining discounts and bargains! I looked at huge ads, they showed pictures and prices of scores of items that were going cheap. There were beard trimmers at two hundred and forty nine bucks, vegetable cutting machines for less than five hundred, air-conditioners going dirt…
The Kamala-Trump Debate…!
It was a jaded old man called Donald, spewing the same mouthfuls of hate and anger against immigrants and foreigners, I’d heard during his tenure as the President. He’d divided the country with his rhetoric on building walls, both physical and mental, and had finally been thrown out by the…
Stop Shutting the Internet..!
The first thing that happens when there is violence or rioting is to shut down the internet. Why? In the good old days when kings sat in their castles and sent their men into battle, quite often, guards from his fort watchtowers would shout, “Lone horseman riding to the fort!”…
Is Our Car Being Washed?
An early morning activity is of cars being washed. Millions of gallons of water I am sure, is used by watchmen, pump men, man servants and maid servants to get their sahibs or memsaabs car looking spic and span! But is that car of yours really washed? Go out and…
Stoking ‘Remembrance’ Fires…!
What about having a ‘Forgiveness Day’? What’s that, you ask, what d’you mean by such? Well, since this government seems to be blessing us with days to remember atrocities and injuries, what about a day to forgive and forget each other for the same? Not just you and me, but…
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.