Yesterday as I sat at the Tata Theatre and heard enchanting music from the pipe organ played by young Avinash Grubb, I thought of another pipe organ: It was one…
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…
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…
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…
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…
As I look at those who raise their hands in worship in a church, temple or masjid, I realize for me my soul lifts up in praise to my Maker…
People donate for the blind, give generously towards old age homes and orphanages, but it is difficult having them part so liberally towards charities or NGOs who work for the…
Many years ago, as a young man, I sat on the board of an organization which was planning a huge function in the city and for which they had sent…
It was a midnight call that woke me five years ago. A call from my wife who was on holiday in New York, “Bob, mummy passed away in her sleep!”…
“Any more strategies? Your midnight one wasn’t very effective, nor the secretive early morning swearing in!” “I don’t know, but they seem to be beating me nowadays!” “I noticed!” “I…
Not just by someone, but by life itself? Being battered by life is part of living life! No ship is made to sit in the dry docks or weigh anchor…
Normally at a funeral I come prepared to see emotionally drained relatives, unconcerned bystanders and a dead body that looks like it has had enough with all on earth including…
“Which hospital are you taking him to?” I asked the wife of my friend. She told me and as I instructed my driver to take them to the hospital, I…
Rat-a tat-tat-tat-tat-tat, went the machine guns of the terrorists! On that Night of Terror eleven years ago, I was just a few feet away from the deadly carnage that killed…
Even as we, those who support and do not support the BJP look at the nephew and wonder how he could have betrayed his own uncle, my mind goes back…
T’was a few years ago that a short bent old lady climbed up to my office and plonked herself in front of me. “What are your views on abortion Bob?”…
A group of women were praying for one of their friends who though a spiritual and religious person was going through trying and difficult times. “Instead of feeling God’s comforting…
Many years ago, while doing my undergrad, my professor called me to his room, “With what you write and how you write,” he said, “You will either fail or get…
Author : Robert Clements
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.
