Let’s not mince words but during the last few months, our country has been going through some pretty bad terror attacks! Yes, there’s a soft terror that’s going unchecked in our country! As I watch politicians in our country speaking what they want and getting away with it, I’ve often…
Holding the Inked Finger Up..!
It was a gathering in the country of a billion and a quarter, There were murmurs and sharp words, but no smiles, chuckles or laughter. The people were fed up, all those who’d gathered there, “What did you do for us?” they cried to those who sat on the chair….
Even Death had No Room..!
“You’ll have to move out, the building is unsafe,” the municipal engineers at the Gaza Strip had told her after the last missile attack, as they stood at her doorstep staring unashamedly at her buxom form as she cradled the baby in her arms. “Where?” she had asked silently as…
First be Faithful with Small Responsibilities..!
Ten years ago I sat on the board of a religious magazine, where a priest was the treasurer. I found he had signed eighty-seven blank checks and left them in the trust office. Doing that he felt he did not need to travel all the way to the trust office…
Life is a Boomerang..!
Last evening I was at the club and saw a man at the next table who tried to avoid my eyes. I knew why. He’d been abandoned by his friends and others because of the way he had treated them while he had held a post. Which reminded me that…
Crushed Under a Billboard..!
There’s only one purpose a billboard or hoarding serves; to be noticed! It cannot be hidden! It has to be glaringly visible! Telling the world, ‘Here I am, look at me!’ And that is exactly what the ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FEET BY ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FEET giant illegal…
Those Weird People Outside..!
“You need to go out once in a while!” the wife’s been telling me, “Otherwise a stage will come when the world outside won’t know you at all, or worse you might forget how to deal with the world outside!” “Ok,” I said, and decided to cash a cheque by…
Worker Ants of India..!
The only ‘Made in India’ product, we should be proud of sending abroad, and worth exporting is the product of peace and non-violence that was taught by Gandhiji and that won us our freedom. Otherwise, the very concept of making something that foreign powers have innovated just makes us worker…
A Calming Sea..!
One very fond memory I carry is getting on to my old motor bike and riding to the sea. Any guesses who my pillion was? No, not some pretty lass but an old uncle. We drove to the beach and then sat on the sand and gazed into the distance….
Somebody who’s a Nobody..!
It’s one of the most impressive old structures among the heritage buildings along the sea front, looked after with total dedication by a tall Anglo- Indian gentleman with a booming voice. The building would have gone to the dogs if not for this one man. And yet I remember him…
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.