With so many Zoom calls being made and many people wanting to speak on different subjects I find quite a few speakers are trying to impress their audience with the kind of language they use, especially in using high sounding words: The bigger the better, and it makes no difference…
How Strong Is Your Table?
Page after page of all the newspapers are filled with deaths and other grim situations of the pandemic, so much so that smiles, grins and laughter seem to have disappeared and yes, the masks haven’t helped! A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in…
What’s Your Purpose In Being Alive?
Everyone has a purpose in life, small or big. Find out what can keep you living big…. CLICK HERE AND FIND OUT
Losing Our Dead Parts..!
It was many years ago that I had first met him. He was the best pianist I had ever heard: Brilliant with his playing and fantastic as a composer. But it was a lot more than that; he talked with wisdom and it was a joy to listen to him…
I Can’t Breathe..!
Even as I hear the dying cry of George Floyd gasping, ‘I can’t breathe!’ I wonder who it is that cannot breathe? Is it the black minority that gasps under the weight of a white majority? Or is it the white majority that sees African Americans enjoying their same freedom,…
Anger Management During the Lockdown..!
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind,” Robert Ingersoll. Just before the lockdown I was at a police station trying to keep a son of a friend of mine out of jail. The boy had been driving his dad’s car when he was hit by a school bus. He…
Yesterday’s Cyclone and YOUR Anchor..!
There was more fear yesterday over the imminent cyclone lashing Mumbai, than the coronavirus! Locals, spent all their time, finding out how close the cyclone was while barricading their windows, charging their phones and white faced phoning those who lived outside the city, telling them how afraid they were! A…
Turning Veg..!
After reading a full page advertisement in yesterday’s newspaper, advising everybody to become vegetarians, my millionaire neighbour a diehard non- vegetarian decided he would become a veggie. “One might as well get used to something before it becomes a law and takes you by total surprise,” he said as he…
My Nose, Her Cheeks, His Heart..!
There’s two little fellows, twins, who came into my life just over two years ago, and now as they and their mother, my daughter, are stuck with me because of the lockdown, and can’t return to their home in New York, I hear neighbour voices, “He’s got your nose Bob!”…
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.