The Great Election Religion Tamasha…!
“Who are you voting for?” he asked me with great seriousness, as though the future of the nation rested delicately between his teacup and my answer. “I was thinking,” I said, “of voting for whoever will stop the unnecessary concretising down my road.” He looked at me with pity. Not…
Crying Wolf Too Often..!
We all know the fable about the shepherd boy. He rushes into town shouting that wolves are attacking his sheep. The villagers drop their work, run to help, and find they have been fooled. He does it again. Same drama. Same deception. Then comes the day a real wolf attacks….
Sexual Harassment and Forced Conversion..!
Yesterday I read a news report that left me more confused than a man trying to understand GST without a calculator, a lawyer, and divine intervention. A corporate office in Nashik, had been accused of sexual harassment. Serious issue. Grave matter. Needs investigation, justice, and strong action. But later, a…
Woman’s Reservation: A Step Backwards..!
The other day I watched a group of women before a meeting, planning the events. It was strategic. It was, if you ask me, better organised and dramatically executed than most cabinet meetings. And as I stood there, pretending to check my phone while actually listening with great national interest,…
No Money in the Kitty..!
In government circles, there is a new phrase doing the rounds. “No money in the kitty.” Now that is a very strange sentence for a state like Maharashtra. It is a bit like hearing that a five-star hotel has run out of food, or that a sweet shop in Mumbai…
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.