No, this article isn’t about me, though like you even I could do with some cheerleaders cheering me once in a way. As I watch the cheerleaders at the IPL matches I remember an article that appeared in one of our national dailies, and as I read on, tears came…
Tell it like it is….!
Most of us are happy being cultural followers of our religion, and for the most part we get upset with another community when they belittle our religion, not because of any spiritual reason but because we feel we have been disrespected. I know many who have no belief in God,…
Thanking Her Ex..!
“You’re useless!” he had said to her. She knew why he suddenly found her useless: She’d seen the ‘other woman’, clinging to her husband’s side throughout the party. “I fly!” she had told Payal. “A pilot?” Payal had asked innocently and everyone had laughed. “Pilots aren’t so pretty!” he had…
Turn Your Motor On..!
A property owner was looking to buy a saw to cut down a lot of wild forest trees on his property. He goes to a chainsaw shop and asks about various chainsaws. The dealer tells him, “Look, I have a lot of models, but why don’t you save yourself a…
The Girl Under the Streetlight…!
It was somewhere close to midnight that I decided to drive down the road for an ice cream. I found the roads empty, but what was my surprise to see that under each streetlight, along the pavement, children sat, staring with absolute concentration at the study books on their laps….
Leadership and What’s Missing..!
There’s something amiss in this country: There’s somebody who’s going round the world pounding his chest and shouting, “Look at me, see I’m back for the third time,” and there’s the world saying, “I think you’ve got it wrong, there’s a brother and sister, in whom we are seeing striking…
A Turnaround from A Bad Habit…!
As I keep hearing about a disgruntled Ajit Pawar who keeps backing the wrong horse and this time, landing up with just one seat in the Lok Sabha, I do remember though that he did motivate a man to do something right, and this was when a Maharashtra deputy chief…
Miraculous Well Water…!
Some years ago, people staying in the colony I live in, in Mumbai, peeping out of their windows early in the morning, wondered why I went and stared into a black hole in the garden. That black hole in the ground is no more a hole but carved into a…
A Porsche and a Mercedes..!
It was a contest which offered a luxury sedan as a prize, and I thought, why not, wouldn’t mind getting one. Imagine my surprise when I opened the form and found the luxury car offered was the same model I was driving! I realized then that I was so busy…
They’re Not Drunks or Whores..!
He was resting at the well. I knew he’d sent his followers away, to get a much needed respite away from his busy schedule of teaching and preaching and healing. But as his head touched the side of the brick wall, a woman appeared. I knew who she was and…
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.