Shooting the Messenger..!
A few years ago, a news item appearing in Indian newspapers mentioned that people had found out that blankets offered by the Indian Railways to its passengers for their overnight journeys were washed only once in two months! Which meant, realized horrified passengers that they had slept in the sweat…
Fooled by Tiger Statistics..!
Front page headlines of a leading national English daily yesterday carried news that the tiger population had increased by five hundred tigers! Not in the fourth or fifth page, but headlines on the front page at the same time as the more important news of twenty one of our country’s…
The Maturity of Faith..!
Yesterday, at lunch I met a young lady from Manipur, and in her eyes saw sadness, “They have decided to kill each other till they finish each other!” she told me, and there was sorrow in her voice. Yes, we know who she was talking about; two tribes who believed…
Tall Man..!
The guide taking us on a tour of Istanbul was extremely articulate and expressive, suddenly he whispered, “There will be times,” he said, “when I will have to refer to our great leader, and I might not talk about him in a very complimentary fashion, so rather than being arrested,…
Selling Joy Sir?
Was reading with interest that our Prime Minister’s present visit to the US is to boost India-US defense industrial ties, and felt good we as a nation under the PM were slowly becoming self-reliant in our defense production. Then with quickened interest I read that the PM would also lead…
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.