Today’s article in the Times brought me unexpected medical validation. According to learned people with graphs and charts, two to three cups of coffee a day may help keep dementia at bay. I read it slowly, reverently, the way one reads a verdict of acquittal. Then I smiled the smile…
Coffee, Me and Dementia..!
Coffee, Tea or Me..!
My morning cuppa’s been getting some good press lately: Last week she was featured as a preventive for diabetes and then the papers reported that a cup a day keeps memory loss at bay! Ha! And to all those people who’ve stared at me as I sip my daily addiction…
When the Coffee Is Over..!
With clouded face I hold the empty flask over my cup and pour, and watch the dregs come out. The coffee is over! It’s a huge flask that houses my coffee each morning I sit in my garden, and sip, reflect and ponder, enjoying the sound of woodpecker, sparrow 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.