“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…
Use Words to Let Anger Out..!
The best way to let out your anger is not by using your fists, nor by silence, though many, many posts tell you to suffer in silence, but the right way is to express your rebuttal in words! That’s something we haven’t learnt as a people and also haven’t seen…
Blind Dogs and the Dog Farm..!
Once upon a time, there was a dog farm, with many species of dogs in it. The dogs in the farm had won their freedom from foreign dogs who had ruled their farm for many years, and who ruled by using the ‘divide and rule’ method, causing a huge division…
A Beautiful Girl..!
“Why didn’t I have good looks like my sister?” a girl cried to her mother. The mother looked at her little girl, sighed and said, “Do you know my sisters and I grew up with a blind mother? One day when I was about 17 and standing in front of…
Treachery..!
The other day I was talking to someone who’d been in the real estate business, and he told me he’d left the profession because of treachery, “Bob,” he told me, “Deals are made behind your back, by clients who I’ve introduced to each other, because they don’t want me to…
Asleep On Their Jobs..!
“…Sleeping on your job can get you sacked says Supreme Court…” The Times of India Visited a government office yesterday and a job that could have been finished in half an hour took three, all because of employees sleeping on their job. That’s when I remembered a Supreme Court judgement…
Not Buildings or Cemeteries..!
“Bob!” he said as he opened the blueprint, “This is going to be a fourteen-story building! On the ground floor we will have our bookstore, on the next floor a conference room, then the residences of all our employees, and above offices!” “Offices?” “Yes, we will rent it out 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.