When we were kids I remember how my younger brother once used a word he shouldn’t have said, and how cleverly I blackmailed him to do many little tasks for me, by reminding him, about it everyday. Many of us have done something in the past which always makes us…
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.
Visiting Mahabalipuram! Visiting Spain! To See What?
A moneyed friend of mine had just come back from a holiday he’d spent at Mahabalipuram, the temple town a few kilometres from Chennai. Since I’d been there a few times, I’d told him about the carvings, the sculptures and the temples, and was quite eager to hear his own…
From KnowAll to LearnAll..!
A few decades ago, the family doctor reigned supreme! From a common cold to cancer, families sought his advice. His word was the gospel. His clinics were full. His diagnosis was good, his manner amiable, but alas, there were times, when he lost a patient or two, and his clients…
What A Friend..!
What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer! Oh, what peace we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer! Have we trials…
Stan’ Tall for Stan’..!
One of the saddest pictures I’ve seen in recent times, is the back of a young girl in jeans, head bowed down, weeping over the sliced trunk of an axed tree, her arms holding it tight! That picture was worth a thousand words, because plans for a huge metro project…
Looking Beyond the Car Ahead..!
Was sipping tea in the back seat of my car when my driver suddenly braked, throwing scalding hot tea all over me, “Sorry sir,” he said as he looked in the rear view mirror. I rubbed the hot steamy liquid of my stained shirt, and grimaced with pain as I…
Too Much Wine..!
T’was a fancy restaurant we went to, the waiter not only had a stiff upper lip, but same surgeon had turned his nose up in the air too. “What will you have sir?” he smirked. “Wine!” I said “Which one?” “Red!” “Which red one sir?” “Any wine that’s red!” I…
Peace in an Art Gallery?
In a doctor’s clinic a worried patient lay on the doctor’s couch, “What you need,” said the psychiatrist, “is to get away to a peaceful place, where you can enjoy beauty for awhile, like a…” “An art gallery?” asked his patient. “A what?” exclaimed the doctor. “A roomful of exquisite…
Our DNA Is the Same..!
‘..DNA of all Indians are same, irrespective of religion..’ RSS Chief, Mohan Bhagwat. How easy it is for us to voice words such as, ‘All Indians are my brothers and sisters!’ and then quietly turn away from some person worshiping in a way different from us! But when a national…
Worrying Yourself Silly..!
My daughter’s dog Noah has been left at my home for a few hours as she and my son-in-law have gone out for lunch. I watch him as he paces all over my home, looks through the window anxiously and watching him, I know his thoughts, “Will they come back…
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.