Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
As a teenager, I wrote a play about two young men in college. One arrived each day looking as if he had stepped straight out of a fashion catalogue, wearing stylish new clothes with all the pride of a peacock at mating season. The other had a simpler wardrobe. White…
Let’s start with an imaginary neighbour of mine. One week she was treating patients with tiny sugar globules wrapped in tissue paper, the next she was prescribing antibiotics strong enough to bring down an elephant. “Dual practice,” she told me with a proud smile, “I’m both a homeopath and an…
I read the news report with a smile—one of those polite, tight-lipped smiles you give when someone’s trying to sell you something you know you already paid for.It said, “Zelensky calls Modi; Modi tells him efforts should be made to find a peaceful solution to the war.” Ah! Great words….
I sit thousands of miles away from home, flipping through international newspapers and watching foreign news channels, and a growing discomfort gnaws at me — a quiet but unmistakable realization: nobody believes us anymore. Yes, I do believe Operation Sindoor was necessary. I believe it was executed with precision and…
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.
