Cutting Off Tongues..!
I looked at the banners I was making: We want Freedom of speech! We want Freedom to Speak! We want Freedom of Expression! All banners for the next march, morcha or protest against the government. Then I heard a sound and from across my room heard muffled sobs and saw…
Are You Watching Your Child Protesting?
Goons enter the JNU college. They thrash professors and students. The Union President, a girl, Aishe Ghoshe is beaten on the head with iron rods, thrown to the ground, kicked, punched, bleeding and badly injured is admitted to hospital where she receives sixteen stitches on her bloodied head! Next day,…
Mumbai’s Protest Rally: A Return of Goodness..!
Contrary to what news reports say, it was not a mere twenty or twenty five thousand yesterday at the Mumbai protest rally at the historic August Kranti Maidan, there were at any given time nearly ten times the same number surging outside, unable to get in, extending right from the…
Too Young, Mr Ganguly?
Sourav Ganguly’s eighteen year old daughter, Sana, is said to have posted a message on Instagram, against the CAA. But loving father that he is, Sourav has said, that ‘she is too young a girl to know about Indian politics!’ And in that statement lies the snooty, snigger and smirks…
Crazy People like Crazy Gates..!
It was a class reunion, “Hi, aren’t you Charles who got 100%?” “Yes!” “How you doing? And what are you doing?” “I’m a banker, and might make it to manager next year!” “And you? You were known as Crazy Gates, weren’t you?” “Ah well, I guess you know I’m the…
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.