Wrong Message..!
A procession by a majority community into a minority neighbourhood, stone pelting by foolish residents, and the next day bulldozer retaliation by authorities, demolishing shops on the same street with the excuse of encroachments, spoiled the otherwise peaceful consecration of the Ram Mandir. Tit for tat, right? But when the…
Are We Becoming Like Bozo?
Each state in our country is trying to force a division among the people by insisting on the local language taking prominence. Shop boards have to be displayed in regional languages, and now school studies too. As this happens a nation is getting divided and as English is pushed back,…
Blinded by the Wrong Progress..!
What is it that is blinding our people? A bridge that stretches out into the sea, tunnels, metros and bullet trains that cut short travel time and that speak of a new India, equal to the west. They think they see progress. But is it? In my recent visit to…
A Long Walk..!
It’s a long walk he’s settled himself to do, from Manipur to Mumbai! Six thousand seven hundred and thirteen kilometres! Stretching and arduous, it’s going to be, but tis not the distance covered that will be tiresome and difficult, but the uncovering and tending of all the pain, the hurt,…
Maldives and Laughing at Ourselves.!
Though the remarks by the Maldives deputy minister in ridiculing our PM as a ‘clown’ and a ‘puppet’ are immature and uncalled for, I do believe the bigger thing to have been done in this situation was for the PM to have laughed it off, instead of making it a…
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.