Unfurling A Balanced Flag..!
I stood at attention as the strains of Jana Gana Mana ended, and the National Flag was unfurled. I watched as those around me walked away for their light refreshments, and then heard voices around me, “It’s not balanced!” “Yes sadly it isn’t!” said another familiar voice. “Of course it…
Nun Sacked for Owning a Car..!
“What wrong have I committed bishop?” “You own a car!” And that is the wrong a religious body feels an Indian nun has committed. Enough, to sack her! Having sat on a few boards, I see how wrongly we look at necessities and classify them as luxuries. I remember a…
Kashmir and Sons of the Soil..!
Even as I hear jubilation from all corners of India, and men and women clothed in saffron and otherwise, expressing happiness that today, we are one unified country, and that each of us can buy land in the new union territory, can shift in and live like any other local…
Kashmir: A Healing..!
Without going into the merits or demerits of the events in Kashmir, I feel that India has the biggest opportunity here of showing the world, a healing! What was used here, was a heavy hand and such heavy hands are used quite often in times of war and when other…
RIP Sushma Swaraj..!
It’s been just over three years ago, I heard that my closest friend, a novelist, dramatist, and also a newspaper columnist, the great grandson of India’s most famous painter had been kidnapped in an African country! His wife got in touch with me, and between her, his sons and myself,…
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.