Appeasing Minorities..!
“Stop appeasing the minorities!” shout the majority in the country. Hearing these shouts, I decided to fairly and without bias look into their angry cry. I did and realized how better to think of the country than as one large family, with the Government, Mother India, looking after it’s differently…
Don’t Woo Prashant Kishor..!
Today, political rallies are all about candidates insulting each other. The days of dignified talk seem to be over, and just when I was beginning to feel sad about the bygone days, I suddenly started realizing that even insults could be turned around and made to work for us: This…
Miss Universe Throws a Boulder..!
As Harnaz Sandhu, with self-assurance and assertiveness, strong voice and spirited speech swept the Miss Universe title, she threw a message, not a bouquet of flowers to a waiting, receptive audience, but a boulder into the midst of the startled men of India! ‘I am not a wallflower, just a…
Political Leaders and Spicy Food..!
Ever so often, a common picture opportunity is when a political leader drops into the house of some poor person and has a meal with him or her. As the Prime Minister launched the Kashi Vishvanath Corridor Project, he supped with construction workers and I wonder whether he asked the…
A General is Dead..!
A General lies dead! Was it an act of war? Sabotage? Pilot error? Mechanical failure? He was not killed on a battlefield leading his men, not from an act of vengeance for some previous act to save the country, but dead, traveling on his own warhorse, piloted by his own…
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.