Some time back I read about a glamorous wedding that took place in Goa, between a former Miss World and an Indian tennis star. One had just divorced his wife a few months back and the other had broken up with her boyfriend. How fast we get in and out…
Dreams Can Wait..!
DREAMS CAN WAIT by Robert Clements (Published in the Indian Express Newspaper, 16th Feb, 1996) Today on her birthday I remember this article fondly….. The tall beautiful twelve year old girl waved her “dandiya’ stick at me and smiled. I looked at her, my grown-up daughter and my mind went…
Unbridled Power, Quiet Peace..!
“When you come to New York dad,” my daughter had told me a few years ago, “We’ll drive down and see the Niagara Falls!” I remembered the Niagara Falls. For years before visiting it the first time, I had seen pictures and picture postcards of the waters cascading down the…
Learn and Get Ahead..!
A few years ago the Mumbai Police declined to procure Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for aerial surveillance saying they do not have the required expertise. You all remember Mumbai’s 26/11, don’t you? When policemen with Second World War rifles tried to fire on terrorists armed with the latest sophisticated, weaponry! We…
No Congress Debate Sir?
As I hear that Mallikarjun Kharge wants no debate with Shashi Tharoor, for the Congress president elections, I wonder how any candidate can be elected without hearing him speak? ‘’Sir, why are you afraid of debates?” “I don’t want one, because I’ve already been blessed!” “Blessed by whom?” “By the…
Arranging Our Mind In Advance..!
The ninety two year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady after many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. “I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. “Mrs….
You’re Not A Chicken..!
“..Cat thinks he’s a chicken; an Australian cat has begun to fancy himself as a chicken, and is taking his new role seriously….” You’ve heard of strange things, men who think they’re women, women who act like men, adults who still think they’re children, many such in this world right?…
Uncomfortable Throne Sitters..!
And as I see the battle royal raging in the Congress as to who will sit on the throne, I must say that most of our leaders in other political parties look pretty uncomfortable on the thrones they are sitting one and occupy just a portion of the royal chair….
Muscular Leaders of Today..!
Maybe you don’t know, or just maybe you don’t want to read between the lines but before Putin went to war, he first saw to it that newspapers and magazines throughout the world showed him with his shirt off and his bulging KGB muscles. Now we realise there was a…
No Free Sari..!
As I see the multiple floor crossings by our politicians, I realise that these men and women have no ideology they believe in and it is only we voters who have been made fools by believing them when we cast our votes for what we think they stand for. But…
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.