As I glanced at the papers today, all of them mentioning different leaders in our country, I came across some thoughts by Steve Goodier on leadership, and added some of…
On a visit to a physiotherapist, an exercise she prescribed for a painful right shoulder was the putting of my left arms against my right. “Clasp both your palms together…
“Goodbye!” I used to shout. “Goodbye dad!” they shouted back. “Goodbye” I whispered and watched the retreating figures of my children. I waited at the window and watched them as…
He’s gone now, to the great beyond, but many years ago, as I returned from my walk, I used to find a slightly oldish man waiting for me, his back…
In my travels through Spain, Portugal and many other European countries I’m often told of some famous church I should visit in the vicinity, “Built in 1566!” says the guide….
As the might of superior American artillery rains on a heroic, yet poor, poverty-stricken billionaire, our battered countryman stands valiantly crying out to the world and fellow countrymen, not to…
As I bid farewell to the masons, carpenters and electricians and the last of the construction workers after they had repaired my old house, in the process carrying away three…
‘Be secular: Supreme Court on PIL for ban on parties with religious link’ TOI, 1st Feb “What’s the news in India?” asked my American friend, as I read an Indian…
Mornings are coffee time, and a time, which I spend most conscientiously brewing the concoction to perfection! Quite a few of my friends, knowing my love for the brew, send…
Once while conducting a workshop on ‘Purpose and the Job’ a participant stopped my talk and asked me, “I am a senior manager of a materials department and joined this…
Many, many decades ago, when I was around twelve, a cousin of mine, a medical student from the prestigious medical college in Vellore, presented me with, “An Area of Darkness”…
“When you have something against another Christian, why do you file a lawsuit and ask a secular court to decide the matter?” 1 Corinthians 6:1 Oh what a mockery we…
Something that excites me after the excitement of writing is teaching and sales! Now that’s a very strange combination isn’t it? “Your passion for writing, we understand, teaching too,” say…
Bob’s Banter No man is a god! When man comes to power, he comes with a suitcase full of weaknesses, and one of them is adulation! Which man doesn’t love…
Was sitting in my garden this morning, when I was struck by the sheer beauty all around, the joy the different shades of green gave out, and looking more closely…
“Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though…
And during the next elections as different parties promise freebies to the poor, and the same poor people with stars in their eyes jump to claim them, remember it’s your…
“I’ll have another drink,” he told the waiter. “It’s your fourth,” I said. “So you’re good at counting,” he acknowledged. “Don’t you think you’ve had enough?” “I know when to…
Author : Robert Clements
Bob’s Banter by 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.