One of the saddest pictures I’ve seen in recent times, is the back of a young girl in jeans, head bowed down, weeping over the sliced trunk of an axed tree, her arms holding it tight! That picture was worth a thousand words, because plans for a huge metro project…
Looking Beyond the Car Ahead..!
Was sipping tea in the back seat of my car when my driver suddenly braked, throwing scalding hot tea all over me, “Sorry sir,” he said as he looked in the rear view mirror. I rubbed the hot steamy liquid of my stained shirt, and grimaced with pain as I…
Too Much Wine..!
T’was a fancy restaurant we went to, the waiter not only had a stiff upper lip, but same surgeon had turned his nose up in the air too. “What will you have sir?” he smirked. “Wine!” I said “Which one?” “Red!” “Which red one sir?” “Any wine that’s red!” I…
Peace in an Art Gallery?
In a doctor’s clinic a worried patient lay on the doctor’s couch, “What you need,” said the psychiatrist, “is to get away to a peaceful place, where you can enjoy beauty for awhile, like a…” “An art gallery?” asked his patient. “A what?” exclaimed the doctor. “A roomful of exquisite…
Our DNA Is the Same..!
‘..DNA of all Indians are same, irrespective of religion..’ RSS Chief, Mohan Bhagwat. How easy it is for us to voice words such as, ‘All Indians are my brothers and sisters!’ and then quietly turn away from some person worshiping in a way different from us! But when a national…
Worrying Yourself Silly..!
My daughter’s dog Noah has been left at my home for a few hours as she and my son-in-law have gone out for lunch. I watch him as he paces all over my home, looks through the window anxiously and watching him, I know his thoughts, “Will they come back…
Still Biting Eve’s Apple?
Many years ago, while travelling on a train to Pune, I started writing a play on Judas, and called it, “The Kiss!” This was before the age of laptops and computers and after writing the title on my pad, looked out of the window, as I normally do to get…
Take Responsibility, Says Court..!
‘Supreme Court: Kin of Covid victims entitled to compensation’ Indian Express “Why should we take responsibility for an act of god?” ask bewildered leaders. In insurance parlance, Covid-19 is called an ‘act of god’ and payments are dealt with accordingly, but what measures were taken to protect citizens, how quickly…
When We Are Called to Part..!
Five friends! Two, I left at airport gate and watched as they walked to meet their plane, stopping once to give a final wave. Three left with no wave, they could not move their hands, as two went into crematorium fire and one, lowered to earth below. When we are…
WhatsApp Terrorism..!
They all schooled together, grew up as one, spun tops, flew kites, played marbles, and in the playgrounds of school, followed more sophisticated sports like cricket, hockey, football, as seasons went by. They hurt their knees playing kabaddi, fought each other on piggyback, then got up and embraced one another….
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.