Nun Sacked for Owning a Car..!
“What wrong have I committed bishop?” “You own a car!” And that is the wrong a religious body feels an Indian nun has committed. Enough, to sack her! Having sat on a few boards, I see how wrongly we look at necessities and classify them as luxuries. I remember a…
Kashmir: A Healing..!
Without going into the merits or demerits of the events in Kashmir, I feel that India has the biggest opportunity here of showing the world, a healing! What was used here, was a heavy hand and such heavy hands are used quite often in times of war and when other…
RIP Sushma Swaraj..!
It’s been just over three years ago, I heard that my closest friend, a novelist, dramatist, and also a newspaper columnist, the great grandson of India’s most famous painter had been kidnapped in an African country! His wife got in touch with me, and between her, his sons and myself,…
Pick Up the Baton and Run..!
Quite often I meet people who tell me about what they would have become if they had made some right decision years ago! “If only I had bought those shares Bob, I would be a millionaire now!” “Had I only listened to my instincts and married her, I would have…
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.