Tall Men Don’t Bend..!
There’s something majestic about a tall man or woman walking straight and proud. And no, I don’t just mean the ones who make you crane your neck at the airport. I mean those whose stature lies not in centimetres but in conviction. But what do we see today? People hunched….
The Arrogance of Our Nation..!
Arrogance, my dear reader, is not a trait you’ll find in confident people. It’s what you find in people who haven’t found themselves. And unfortunately, it’s become the new national dress code. Not khadi, not cotton, not even designer FabIndia—just pure, unadulterated, pompous arrogance stitched with a rope, not thread…
‘Convert Confidence in Ourselves’ Law..!
As I sip my morning coffee and flip through the papers, I can’t help but notice something that’s becoming as predictable as potholes during our monsoons—yet another law being passed to protect us from ourselves. This week’s winner? The Love Jihad law. Next up? The Anti-Conversion law. And while they…
An Indian Makeover Is a Must..!
Was chatting yesterday with an editor of an American magazine. Now she may have looked like the average Manhattan professional—coffee in one hand, laptop in the other—but she was born in Taiwan. “My country,” she said, “is tiny. But look how the world guards us.” Guards them? You’d think she…
Influencing, Reels, and a Life Lost..!
She should’ve been swinging a racquet on court, not shot dead by her father. Why was she killed? Because Radhika Yadav, a celebrated state level tennis player made reels. Because she wanted to be an “influencer.” Ah, the word that gets thrown around these days like confetti at a wedding—influencer….
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.