Something I see very often is the ‘holier than thou’ attitude we possess. To some who are proud of this so-called righteousness and look down on others, Jesus said in Luke 18: 10-14: 10 Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by…
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.
More Than Tears Needed..!
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion: he has given it to them to protect the helpless……… …… Sri Ramakrishna. Maybe, as the world gets divided in its views on both the Israeli war and the Ukraine war, we need to start feeling deeply for innocent…
Fear and The Mumbai Coastal Road..!
Many decades ago while in my teens I loved taking the double- decker bus from the city, run up the stairs to the upper deck, rush to the front seat, and enjoy a glorious ride to the Mumbai suburbs. As night set in, I would put the front glass pane…
Fighting Fair in the Bedroom…!
Most of the nastiest fights take place not on battlefields or war zones, but within a bedroom. Fights, which are mainly words, and I’m not going to talk about fist fights or slaps or blows because perpetrators of those methods need to be shamed in public and have no place…
History and Heritage Erased..!
And now that the elections are over, I was happy to hear the elected representatives are eager to get down to work, “We have so much to do!” sighed a newly elected representative, “First I want to rename the street I live on after my father, the chowk at the…
Being Bored Again..!
After yesterday’s column on the Gift of Boredom, I decided to delve a little more on the benefits of being bored: Enhanced creativity: Boredom can force your mind to wander and explore new ideas. When you’re not focused on specific tasks, your brain has the opportunity to come up with…
The Gift of Boredom..!
Tomorrow I’ll be addressing teachers and my talk is on ‘Fostering Creativity and Imagination,’ “What’s a gift we all have received but we most dislike?” I’m going to ask, and then will tell them, ”it’s the gift of boredom.” Then I’m going to go a step farther, “If you feel…
Don’t Close Your Gates..!
“The ultimate tragedy,” said Martin Luther King, “is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Yes, the silence you maintain when wrong things happen, is as bad as carrying out those same acts of injustice against the innocent. God…
Do You Dare Ask?
All the change for the better that’s happened in our world, is because people simply asked. Why am I a slave, and not free like the white man? Cried the blacks in America, even as they were aware of a constitution stating, all men were equal, even as they saw…
Stop Thinking, Start Thanking..!
While walking in the park a few years ago I passed an elderly gentleman, a friend of mine, who seemed to be walking a tad slowly and pensively, “A penny for your thoughts?” I asked. “I think I’m getting old!” he said sadly, and at that time his daughter passed…
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.