Aiyo..!
She was beautiful, doe eyed and South Indian, and every time, we met after college, and I recounted something I’d been through during the day, she would exclaim, “Aiyo!” Aiyo, covered all her emotions, from ‘Oh dear!” to ‘’Oh no!” in sadness and even in joy, could ‘aiyo’ be used….
Tackling the Chinese in Our Backyard..!
Today, the mood in India is to march to the border and slaughter those who killed our twenty brave men. And in the midst of this bristling rage, has come a call to ban all things Chinese! For most of us this means checking if a product is made in…
Police, Beating Up People..!
I’ve been seeing videos of policemen thrashing men and women venturing out of their homes during curfew, beating them mercilessly with their lathis, and under the forward of one such video was a comment from the sender, “I support the police for this action!” I wanted to send a rejoinder…
Clap! Clap! Clap! at 5 pm..!
And as I joined my nation at 5 pm, clapping, what I heard were not just the sounds of two hands joining together to produce applause, no, what I heard was unitedness, togetherness, a singleness of purpose, a collective positivity, a unanimous feeling of bonding, shoulder to shoulder, hand in…
Barn Building and the Corona Calamity..!
Suddenly, arrogant, loudmouthed leaders of the world, some closer home, who with sneers, jeers and taunts, poked fun at others, have changed their tone. Some had great plans to reshape demography, recreate borders and rebuild their nations, using cunning, clever and Machiavellian ideas, they had even stolen from the handbook…
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.