During this festival time, there will be many who will visit religious places asking and praying for this or that: “I want a new car!” “A big house!” “I want the latest cell phone!” “An iPad!” And the list is endless. Have we ever wondered it is a time to…
Drawing Open the Curtain..!
Monsoon weather isn’t the most cheerful weather! It certainly isn’t, and persistent rain, along with rumbling thunder adds to a feeling of impending doom. My daughter who studied in Seattle told me even there, skies are overcast most of the time, and it is one place where psychiatrists and psychologists…
A Library of Wisdom..!
The mother of the little boy was intrigued. Her shy son, who liked more than anything else the company of only himself, had suddenly got attached to his grandfather. “He just loves going out with him!” she told her husband. “Maybe he buys him candy, and eats some himself!” chuckled…
Classes for Riots and Agitations..!
With debates, speeches and convincing arguments slowly losing their appeal among Parliamentarians and State assemblies, and fists, stones and riots taking over, youngsters realize new skills need to be learnt and coaching classes which always rise to such occasions are thinking of rising to the occasion! “This course,” said the…
A God of Miracles..!
My grandmother a woman of God, was of simple but great faith, and it was while growing up on her knee I learnt to trust the same God she worshipped with same childlike faith she had. A lot of which came to me through stories she related, real and vividly…
In the Year 2525..!
Do you remember the song, ‘In the Year 2525’? By Zager and Evans. It must have been memories of that song which made me think this could happen after May, in the year 2024! “There’s something wrong!” I see myself shouting. “What’s wrong?” asks the wife. “I have been cheated,…
Unsuitable Suit..!
Many years back while in business for my father, an interior designer, we would get a contract for the home of the managing director of some big company. Now in all probability I had already visited him in his office and seen him as a powerful person, but at home,…
Reduce the Speed Limit..!
When all over the world, better roads allow vehicles to be driven faster, t’was strange the Madras Hight Court ordered the reduction of speed limits from 120 kmph to the old limit of 80 kmph. But they were right in doing so. ‘But we have better infrastructure now!’ grumbled the…
Impotent Armchair Anger..!
While having a discussion with a close friend of mine, “I told him, “There’s so much of anger, about rapes, potholes, economy mismanagement and poverty in the country! But I don’t see any change!” “Bob,” he said, “No change comes with armchair anger!” “What’s that?” I asked. “Anger which runs…
I Have Problems..!
How nice life would be with no problems, right? You get up in the morning, and there’s a calm, a peace, a wonderful feeling of quiet because, wow, there’s no problem! You smile to yourself, and drift back into sleep, because there’s really nothing to apply your mind to, today!…
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.