Many, many decades ago while my grandmother’s knee I was told a story of how her son, my uncle an air force pilot found his plane was on fire, “He jumped out!” whispered my grandmother, “and angels brought him safely down to earth!” It was much later I learnt it…
Robert Clements is a journalist and newspaper columnist. With an estimated 6 million readership, his column, Bob’s Banter is published in over 30 newspapers and magazines in nearly every state in India, as well as in the top newspapers of Bangladesh, London and Dubai and is also translated into Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.
Identify Your Baggage..!
Have you seen somebody carrying a load of baggage, no not a passenger at a railway station or airport, but someone with a guilty past, failure, lack of confidence, someone who doesn’t know that all he’s got to do is throw that baggage away and he or she is free!…
Your Right to Question..!
It was a beautiful hardbound book and the man was smiling as he gave the book to me, “Your personal copy!” he said and I felt the cover. “You’ve spent a lot of money on it?” I asked. “The trust did!” he said. I opened the book and read the…
Slacken Your Bow..!
Something I hear very often is the word, ‘stress’. According to a Greek legend, in ancient Athens a man noticed the great storyteller Aesop playing childish games with some little boys. He laughed and jeered at Aesop, asking him why he wasted his time in such frivolous activity. Aesop responded…
Cancer and the Dancer..!
Very often I have people telling me of their problems. Most are genuine, some terrible and then I remember Tej. She was a dancer and one of the happiest people I’d ever met in my life. There was not a moment when she was not spreading her infectious joy and…
They Don’t Know Why They Do It.!
He was the former president of a local rotary club, and I wondered at his sad face, “What happened?” I asked, concerned. “I got a call from the incoming president, he told me not to come for his installation!” said the former president. “It was I who introduced him to…
His Ways Are Strange..!
Prayer is answered in the strangest of ways, I’ve found, here’s an experience of a lady who saw answered prayer in God’s strange way of doing so: A woman was at work when she received a phone call that her daughter was very sick with a fever. She left her…
Waves of Joy..!
Was talking to a friend of mine the other day and he said, “Sometimes Bob, as I walk in the park, I feel a deep sense of joy! It just comes on me, and for no particular reason, and all I want is to hold on to it and not…
It’s You..!
I remember once many years ago, catching a flight and standing in line for my security check; suddenly a family of eight walked down the line to the head of the queue and the father and another gentleman who I presumed was the uncle started pushing all the members into…
You Are Needed..!
How important it is for us to feel needed. As we get older we feel more and more that we are not needed anymore; not needed to make decisions, to shoulder burdens, that we are useless. Here’s a little incident written by the mother of a bride, that is so…
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.