There’s only one person who looks good in the Modi jacket, and that’s Mr Modi himself! Today, every tailor, throughout the country is rolling out thousands of yards of cloth stitching these sleeveless new fashion statements for men of all shapes and sizes, who look strikingly ridiculous as they strut…
Dead as the Dead Sea..!
You all must have heard of the Dead Sea? Well, the Dead Sea is really a lake, not a sea. It’s so high in salt content that the human body can float easily. You can almost lie down and read a book! The salt in the Dead Sea is as…
Judge Marzuki In India..!
An Indonesian judge by the name of Marzuki was sitting in judgment of an old lady who pleaded guilty of stealing some tapioca from a plantation. In her defense, the old lady admitted to the Judge that she was indeed guilty of the crime because she was poor and her…
When Everest Turned Human..!
A judge in New Zealand followed by another in India have created history and maybe controversy with a single verdict; they have given human status, therefore legal rights to certain rivers in their countries! In New Zealand it is the Whanganui river and in India, the Yamuna and Ganga! Now…
Instant Justice, Immediate Gratification..!
“I’m bored!” is not a cry we hear often nowadays. Every effort has been made by shrewd marketeers and technologists to see that not a moment of monotony and dullness creeps into the waking hours of our youngsters and also ourselves. Instant gratification is available at the click of a…
Crazy People like Crazy Gates..!
It was a class reunion, “Hi, aren’t you Charles who got 100%?” “Yes!” “How you doing? And what are you doing?” “I’m a banker, and might make it to manager next year!” “And you? You were known as Crazy Gates, weren’t you?” “Ah well, I guess you know I’m the…
A Police Encounter..!
Since police encounter deaths are making news again, I decided to visit a police station for an informal chat, “Whenever we do something right we are criticized!” said the police chief, offering me my mandatory plate of batata vada and hot Telangana chutney from the police canteen downstairs, “we have…
Mountain Top Experiences..!
What exactly do you think is a mountain top experience? Yes, it’s the exhilarating feeling of standing on the peak of a mountain, a feeling of victory, of adrenalin rushing in after a long, tedious climb, and finally the reaching of the pinnacle. What a great feeling! You are on…
Sharing From Our Little..!
Every morning, I sit in my garden and read my newspapers! It’s about the happiest time of my day as I also feed the birds and squirrels and watch them shed their timidity and come close to get a morsel of bread that’s fallen close to where I sit. Very…
Nehru and Napoleon: Men of Stuff..!
As I look at today’s world leaders I wonder where men and women with stuff in them have disappeared; statesmen, who when they rose to speak, spoke without jeer and sarcasm. Leaders who were loved and revered not feared. Where have such people gone? There’s this story that when Napoleon…
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.