After reading a full page advertisement in yesterday’s newspaper, advising everybody to become vegetarians, my millionaire neighbour a diehard non- vegetarian decided he would become a veggie. “One might as well get used to something before it becomes a law and takes you by total surprise,” he said as he…
My Nose, Her Cheeks, His Heart..!
There’s two little fellows, twins, who came into my life just over two years ago, and now as they and their mother, my daughter, are stuck with me because of the lockdown, and can’t return to their home in New York, I hear neighbour voices, “He’s got your nose Bob!”…
The Missing Link..!
Nobody had seen the boy before. “He must have come in from the forest,” the villagers said. “He is not the Mowgli type,” the wise headman said, looking at him. “Let’s take him to the city, they will know!” “He’s the missing link,” said the man at the city university….
The First Covid-19 Victim..!
“You know something,” whispered Democracy, sitting at the Lincoln Memorial, and looking ruefully at Autocracy and Monarchy, “I feel small, insignificant and very inadequate at this moment in time!” “Inadequate in handling the Covid-19 situation?” laughed Autocracy. “No!” said Democracy, “I feel that during this whole world wide Coronavirus panic,…
In Bed With A Mosquito..!
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.” …Michelle Walker Quite often I see people who don’t want to be noticed. It’s not that they are not noticed, it’s just that they feel that by blending into the background,…
Patience with the Elderly..!
Some years ago I was trying to get an inhouse magazine ready and suddenly the printer told me he couldn’t deliver. My dad who had a small printer attached to his computer said he would get thirty copies out for me, if my mother would help him. As I watched…
Turn Your Seat Around..!
T’was on one of those early mornings when driving for a breakfast meeting, I suddenly realized I had time on hand. I slowed the car down and found I was skirting the beautiful Powai lake. I stopped, got down, and watched the red morning sun reflected on the gentle waves….
Dead Mobiles..!
Most psychologists say that this lockdown will help bring families together, but I doubt that will happen as long as our mobile phones keep us company.. Unless…. And I mischievously wondered what would happen if suddenly all mobile phones went dead: A husband and wife sit down to lunch. He,…
The Smuggler’s Handshake..!
“…Just say a simple ‘yes’ I will, or a ‘no’ I won’t. Your word is enough..” Matthew 5: 37 While running a business, I came across many types of customers: One I’ll never forget was a smuggler who lived near the seacoast, in Versova. I remember when I finalized a…
Handling YOUR Grief, Fear and Suffering..!
This happened exactly seven years ago: I still shudder as I remember that early morning call, “Bob, your mother just passed away!” “Ma!” I’d screamed, and my cry echoed in my empty house, empty because my wife and children were abroad, “Ma, can’t I just phone you like I normally…
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.