External Affairs and the Constitution..!
It didn’t shock anyone to hear that North Korean troops had been sent to fight for Russia. Why? Yes, why wasn’t it a shock? Ponder for a moment about North Korea, the dictatorship, the total suppression of human rights, their nuclear pile up and their constant threat to the world!…
The Chief Justice and His Faith..!
Like a ping pong ball going back and forth, arguments for and against the Chief Justice’s statements on prayer about a Supreme Court judgement have been raging throughout the country. Chief Justice Chandrachud said he had prayed to God for a solution to the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute and asserted that God…
Diwali Discounts, and Bargains..!
It’s the festival season and it’s raining discounts and bargains! I looked at huge ads, they showed pictures and prices of scores of items that were going cheap. There were beard trimmers at two hundred and forty nine bucks, vegetable cutting machines for less than five hundred, air-conditioners going dirt…
The Kamala-Trump Debate…!
It was a jaded old man called Donald, spewing the same mouthfuls of hate and anger against immigrants and foreigners, I’d heard during his tenure as the President. He’d divided the country with his rhetoric on building walls, both physical and mental, and had finally been thrown out by the…
Stop Shutting the Internet..!
The first thing that happens when there is violence or rioting is to shut down the internet. Why? In the good old days when kings sat in their castles and sent their men into battle, quite often, guards from his fort watchtowers would shout, “Lone horseman riding to the fort!”…
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.