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…
A New Hitler: General Omicron..!
The new strain of Covid-19 strikes again, under its guerilla warfare chief Gen Omicron! And as we like little ants fortify ourselves, building walls and digging moats against the beginning of another formidable attack from this General and his troops, why don’t we learn a few lessons from the terror…
Farmers Protests and General Eisenhower..!
And as I hear that the Prime Minister has repealed the three farm laws, I move into the future and hear people, especially the new historians of our country saying, ‘There was never any farmer protests!” ‘Ofcourse there was!” I shout, “Through days of bitter cold and other days of…
Who’s Afraid of Afghanistan..!
“Come on China, come on Pakistan, we’re going to discuss Afghanistan!” “Why should we come?” snigger the two countries as they slither away from the National Security Advisor’s meet. The others comprising India, Russia and Russia’s little breakaway states went ahead and had their meet, finally telling the Afghani’s in…
Stop this Civil War..!
Without a war cry or formal declaration, a new civil war rages, and if not arrested immediately will have disastrous consequences and nearly did in the confrontation between Assam and it’s neighboring state of Mizoram, where civilians were not the only casualty, but policemen killed by policemen! Unheard off, right?…
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.