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…
D- Day and T- Day..!
Exactly seventy-nine years ago, the Allied forces fighting World War II landed on the beaches of Normandy to make a final thrust at Germany, who by then had nearly finished murdering 6 million Jews! Four years ago, tears streaming down my cheeks, I watched the late Queen and others give…
Of Lust, Bishops, and Wrestlers..!
As I watch these innocent teenage girls protesting in Delhi, yes indeed, our daughters who won glory for our country, weeping, appealing, and imploring an impassive, immune nation, to act against lecherous, lewd hands that allegedly groped their young vulnerable bodies while inviting them to share their bed for some…
Appeasing the Minorities..!
“Stop appeasing the minorities!” shout the majority in the country. Hearing these shouts, I decided to fairly and unbiasedly look into their angry cry. I did and realized how better to think of the country as one large family, with the government, Mother India, looking after it’s differently built 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.