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…
Rescuing a Fighter Pilot…!
Last week a fighter jet crashes into enemy territory. Within hours, plans are drawn, satellites begin peeping like nosy neighbours, aircraft take off, commandos are briefed, and millions of dollars begin to flow like water from a leaking tap nobody wants to fix. All this for one man. One pilot….
Only Custodians, Not Owners..!
Many years ago, sitting in a charming little café perched like a contented cat atop Malabar Hill, my wife and I made one of the wisest decisions of our lives. We decided to get married. The café, quite naturally, took full credit for this life altering moment. Every year thereafter,…
Teaching the World Cricket..!
India won. Not in kabaddi, not in gilli-danda, but in cricket. We thrashed New Zealand, and a few days earlier we had done the same to England. And that is where the comedy of history begins. Because cricket, in case we have conveniently forgotten, is a colonial game. It arrived…
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.