“Who told you to put all our savings into that bank?” shouts a distraught wife as she looks at her weeping husband, “It’s collapsed! It’s your fault! We are ruined!” In many homes, it’s either a husband or wife crying out about a bank collapse or very lately the collapse…
Standing Tall On Mount Road..!
I’m in Chennai to speak at a function and as I drive down Mount Road, I know it’s got another name now, but Mount Road it will always remain to me, and as I drove down that long, very busy road that ends at the St Thomas Mount, I saw…
A New Olympic Event..!
Suddenly in Mumbai, the city where I live there’s digging, and digging and digging again, going on at a furious pace. There’s so much of digging that we have become one of the most polluted cities not just in India, but the world. It’s as if there’s a deadline for…
A Broken Plastic Bangle..!
I could feel the tension. The man serving chai at the corner stall looked at his two customers as they drank his tea, and in his eyes was a plea for them to drink faster. He watched them for a moment more as they slowly sipped the piping hot tea…
A Good Investment..!
No, I’m not talking about selling the Adani stock and buying something else, but another investment, when I went back to school! I’d been asked to speak at a prestigious institution in the city sometime back, had scribbled a few points of what to say, when a deathly silence descended…
Afraid of My Lunchbox..!
The wife ran to my car as I started the engine this morning, “You forgot your lunchbox!” she cried. “No!” I said in terror, “I don’t want it!” “You don’t want lunch today? You know what the doctor said; skipping meals isn’t going to help you get any healthier!” “Yes,”…
A Clutter of Memories..!
“Your bedroom’s a mess!” “It’s not!” I tell my friends, “It’s a clutter of memories!” “A clutter of what?” they gasp, “Just look at that air cooler on which all your books are kept, why d’ you need it here when the room’s air conditioned?” “Ah!” I tell them, “that…
A Mighty Fall…!
It all happened in a jiffy. One moment walking tall! The next moment, a mighty fall! There I lay sprawled on the ground last evening, helpless for a moment, as I struggled to reactivate my traitor hands and feet that had let me down, in a moment when my brain,…
A Business Called Religion..!
I remember being invited for a dinner meeting where a religious international speaker spoke on some topic which I noticed was of much interest to the audience as there was a huge crowd there. “What do you do Bob?” he asked just after the meeting. “I write!” I said. “You…
Thank you for Just Life..!
As I watch the horrible pictures of the earthquake in Turkey. As I see men and women running on the streets looking back at their homes crashing to the ground, I shudder. It could be any country in the world who could be going through this. It could be you…
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.