One Day is a Lifetime Too Late..!
Justice B.R. Gavai, standing before the people of Manipur yesterday, spoke with the reassuring tone of a Supreme Court judge, “Have faith in our Constitution. The Constitution will ensure peace returns fully to Manipur one day.” Ah, the dreamlike quality of those words: One day! Not soon, not tomorrow, not next…
Build Bridges, Not Bonfires..!
“Did you hear? They’ve brought out a movie about Aurangzeb’s brutality!” cried my neighbour, his eyes widening with excitement, as though the Mughal emperor was about to storm into our apartment complex. “Oh wonderful,” I muttered, “just what we need, another reason for people to glare suspiciously at each other…
Lost In Translation..!
There I was, standing in a police station somewhere deep in Tamil Nadu, anxiously watching the officer behind the desk scribble away, “Sir, what happened?” he asked in English. I carefully explained the whole incident: My car brushed against another vehicle, and the angry driver insisted I accompany him to…
Time to Dream, Rahul..!
There was once a man who had no army, no money, and certainly no WhatsApp IT cell to spread his message. Yet, he took on the might of an empire, rallied millions behind him, and built a nation with an idea. His name? Mahatma Gandhi. Contrast that with Rahul Gandhi, who…
Washing or Kissing Feet..!
Last evening, due to unavoidable circumstances I had to attend a political meeting of a top leader in the ruling party. I watched in absolute horrified fascination, as the man literally like a Tarzan in a a comic book, stared disdainfully at the crowd, waved his hands, thumped his chest,…
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.