Where are The Judges?
‘The Supreme Court’s disquiet over mounting vacancies in high courts and tribunals… reveal a dangerous divide..” TOI Editorial, 11th August 21’ We are always hailed as the largest democracy in the world! But are we? “Do what you want, I will not vacate your house!” sneers your tenant. “I will…
A Different Rape..!
The observation by an Indian Chief Minister a few years ago, degrading a former Miss World while commenting about her lack of beauty is disgusting and disturbing. According to this very knowledgeable man, ‘she did not have the beauty’ but still won the title! I wonder what that same man…
Honour Killing and Mr Honourable You..!
With lethal, bludgeoning, battering blows, that make sickening thud as wooden stick meets soft, beautiful head, proud father lands each blow on his beloved daughter. Limp eyes look up with horror, as very hands that protected all these years now cruelly turn oppressor. “Father!” she feebly cries, “It is me…
Poor Mirabai Chanu..!
Poor Mirabai Chanu! What a weight rested on her, as one point three billion pinned all their hopes on her weight lifting shoulders! What a shame, that we, with the world’s second largest population, are still trailing other countries like Japan, with an area just about that of little Kerala,…
Pegasus: Courtier Behind the Closed Door..!
Watching movies centred around old kingdoms, kings and courts, one is intrigued by the role played by courtiers who surround the king, or the ladies in waiting, bowing and curtsying a queen! But, their role was not just in looking after their monarch and his wife, but they played a…
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.