“Phone a friend,” suggests Amitabh Bhachchan to the floundering person sitting opposite him in ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ and so often that friend is the desperately needed lifeline. In joy or in sorrow, we need the company of friends. Yes sometimes for a while we need to be alone, but just…
Trim your Bristles..!
It was during these covid times I wandered, worry writ on my face as bills piled up at home, and money was not what it used to be, when I imagined I heard a voice ringing out to me, “Hi!” “Hi!” I offered back in return as a stranger with…
Little Bonsai Tsunamis..!
It was at most a storm which fooled all of us. “Aha!” we thought, “the Congress is getting its act together! They are finally beginning to notice they are sliding down an abyss towards obscurity! Their leaders are raising a comeback flag! Hurrah!” But all that happened was a whimper,…
My New Consistent Coffee Taste…!
My morning coffee, which is over a jug tall, is my biggest addiction, but about a month ago, narry a day went by when the taste of those exquisite beans did not surprise me. The coffee powder was the same, the water I was sure couldn’t change much, the coffee…
Welcome, but Not Welcome..!
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…
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.