Suddenly its raining saints, with the Pope canonizing five men and women at one go and with India also having Mother Mariam Thresia Mankidiyan recognized as one! But I wonder how these worthy individuals would have reacted if they had known they were being canonized, “Cardinal Henry Newman how do…
Elections, A Slingshot and a Prayer..!
And as the elections for Maharashtra and other states draw near, what I see is an air of despondency among some of the political parties, as they look at a party which has capitalized on winning over the minds of the people using, according to them, questionable methods. Looking at…
Joining Mr Kapoor On the Terrace..!
As maids and domestic help get scarce and expensive, it won’t be long before what my imagination just conjured up soon becomes reality: I looked up to see the wife trudging across the living room with a bucket of clothes to be washed “Hey!” I asked “Where’s the maid?” “She…
Abhijeet Banerjee and Tihar Jail..!
“He is fearless in expressing his opinions..” Nirmala Banerjee, Abhijeet’s mother. Did you know Tihar jail was where Nobel Prize winner Abhijeet Banerjee spent ten days of his life? Till now, you must have been under the impression only politicians made a success of their careers after a stint in…
Have Eyes, Can’t See..!
I see Modi looking at the opposition and saying, “Can’t you see I’ve done a good thing in Kashmir?” and the opposition replying, “Can’t you see you’ve done a bad thing for democracy?” And both accusing the other of having eyes, but not seeing! A woman took her 14-year-old daughter…
Pickpockets..!
Wrote this while in college, and remember my mother typing it out for me for my college mag. Fished it out, and while reading it, find that nothing’s changed: He was being chased by a mob. He jumped from platform three to platform four just as a train came in,…
Torn Pants, Torn Hands..!
It lay fallen a little distance from the clothesline that held my clothes. I walked over and looked at it, they were certainly not mine; gaping holes stared back at me, and these were not the tears carefully made by a tailor, as many modern pants have, but those that…
The Scorpion..!
This was a few years ago at a family outing: In front of me were mountains with clouds resting on them, I looked at their sides gently tapering down to the valley below where the Krishna river flowed unconcerned and unperturbed by the grandeur above. From where I sat in…
There’s No Place Like Home..!
A few years back I’d gone to spend a month in Europe. It had been an exciting trip and I’d made many friends and visited wonderful places but when I boarded the Alitalia flight back home, there was an incredible childlike ecstasy like nothing I’d ever experienced before. I actually…
Jesus and Lynching..!
Mob lynching comes from Bible, says Mohan Bhagwat (RSS Chief) …India Today, 9th Oct Ah sir, so a gruesome word like ‘lynching’ has been cleverly ascribed to Jesus, a man who lived on earth without sin? There were many who twisted such lines during his life, so that he could…
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.