And even as there’ll be a lot of fanfare today on ‘Woman’s Day’ with national leaders telling the world, about the position of women in India, and how they led this parade or that, and how they head this ministry or that, I look with skepticism at this charade. And…
Dare to Make and Keep Friends..!
I had an uncle, an officer in the army whose close friend was a truck driver. One day, when his friend was insulted for being in the profession he was in, my uncle walked out of the gathering saying, “If you can’t behave well to my friend, then you guys…
The Corona Virus, Death and YOU..!
Suddenly, fear has gripped the world. Not just a village or a township, not just a country, but six billion the world over are petrified. Every sneeze is looked with fear and every sniffle, suspicion. Political leaders who sneered and jeered are now refraining from playing Holi and leaving the…
What’s A Pavement Dad?
Don’t be surprised if the conversation below happens with you in it: “What’s a pavement Dad?” asked the little girl looking up from her homework. “My child,” said the father gently, “haven’t I always told you to refer to the dictionary, see how you found out the meaning of ‘ambidextrous’…
Mauled by A Mall..!
Malls! They’re at every corner, huge and looming, sneering at little shopkeepers in their little shops, laughing gaily at pavement vendors as they seductively fill themselves with millions, nay zillions of shoppers, who saunter from floor to floor, entering shop, leaving shop, burdened with brimming bundles, crammed cartons, big boxes….
A Meaningful Good Morning..!
A little boy and his grandfather walked down the road one morning. The boy felt his grandfather’s grip tighten and he wondered why. He watched another old man walking towards them. “Good morning!” said his grandfather. “Mornin,” said the other old man stiffly as he walked by. “You don’t like…
A Marriage with DARE..!
If my column is a tad late today, and you wonder why, what’s happened to the sound of it arriving in your mobiles, it’s all because of a wedding last night ,where I had to raise the toast, and as you know raising the toast doesn’t end with just glasses…
Camouflaged Alligators..!
We all seem to be filled with a hunger to feed our sensuousness! I see it in the hordes that go on holidays to exotic places like Thailand! And yet is the contentment, the relaxation, the peace they are seeking available at these places, or do the heavier divorce rates,…
The National Coward Award..!
How have we reached such a terrible national situation today? Where friends look at one another with distrust, neighbours peep into each other’s houses with suspicion and mobs rule the streets with police fishing bodies out of Delhi drains? It all begins when we are too much of a coward…
Political Noise and the Steam Engine..!
As all around our nation I hear the bluster, see the sneers and feel the heat of danger I borrow from my book, ‘DARE’ the lines on the steam engines of our childhood! In my mind, even today, there is no ferocious, powerful, robust, beast, like the steam engine of…
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.