And as I heard of state governments all over the country, calling migrant workers back, industrialists paying advances and promising them big bucks, builders even flying them back, I wondered whether the migrant worker had now got his rightful place in the sun, and imagined I was visiting them in…
A Glimmer of Hope..!
A few years ago a friend of mine and I were doing our morning walk together when he told me about this seventeen year old boy in Mulund who had been diagnosed with blood cancer. “The family is devastated,” he said gloomily. “I know someone else who had the same…
The ‘Flat- Earth’ Society..!
Nobody in their wildest dreams a few hundred years ago believed the earth was round, “Round!” they would have laughed at you scornfully, “Am I laying flat stones for my castle flooring or curved ones? Ha, ha, ha!” Today the whole world knows the earth is round, yet there are…
Your Thirty Pieces of Silver..!
Several years ago a preacher moved to Houston, Texas. Some weeks after he arrived, he had occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area. When he sat down, he discovered that the driver had accidentally given him a quarter too much change. As he considered what…
How Do You Park Your Car?
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Sir Covid-19 and George Washington..!
There’s something strange about Sir Covid; he’s laying low both the poor and rich for opposite reasons. The poor, because they want to work and have to go out of the safety of their homes to do so, and the not so poor because they don’t want to work while…
Murder Unmasked..!
As I drove to the airport to drop my daughter, her husband, and twins, I felt a sadness, not entirely because they were leaving for distant shores, but because I saw numerous people on the roads, and even outside the airport, either without masks, or hanging them down round their…
Threading the Needle..!
Today I’m going to borrow a story from my book, DARE: He had the thickest pair of glasses I’d ever seen: During my childhood they called it soda bottle spectacles, because those days the soda came in a thick glass bottle, with a marble on top which you pressed down…
Just Love Without Measure..!
The other day I watched a wife look after her disabled husband. He was a surly grumpy sort who did not have the will or inclination to do something to get his limbs moving again through physiotherapy. All he did throughout the day was sit at home, filled with self-pity….
A Quiet Independence Day..!
Now it’s not every day the Man in the Moon starts peering down at Earth, right? But today, his missus, realized that hubby was spending a little too much time staring down below, “Another Miss World pageant going on husband?” she asked, “That’s one time you are glued to your…
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.