“Miss,” says the little fellow running after his class teacher, “He called me a bad word!” The wise teacher looks at her young student, “And what did you do to provoke him to say that?” No, I’m not defending the boy or girl who said an ugly word, but very…
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.
Ransomware and the Postman..!
All over the world people look at their computer screens waiting for Ransomware or some cyber terrorware to pop out and devour them and their computers. In a home one evening, a father looked at his two children and sighed, “I guess we’ll have to go back to the postmen…
Precise, Coloured and Detailed..!
Something that saddens me no end, is how speakers, writers, preachers and so-called life coaches try to get by without in-depth knowledge and with just superficial rhetoric. Either it’s because of lack of facts, spreading ourselves thin with engagements or relying too much on voice and delivery to fool audiences…
Secularism, Friendship and Boundaries…!
Punjab is a beautiful state with wonderful people. I’d planned to visit the Golden Temple and also Jallianwala Bagh, and I did, but before that visited the ninety-four-year-old Editor in Chief of the Punjab Kesari paper in Jalandhar, in which my column runs. As I sat with the wise and…
Stand Up, Start Walking..!
In school, I was once one of the shyest guys around. Girls teased me no end, and other boys bullied me till one day at the morning assembly, I heard my head master say something that changed my life. “Most people,” he said, “tiptoe through life and finally reach death!”…
No Fancy Fittings Sir..!
This is a continuation of yesterday’s story where a super deluxe hotel room, with a bathroom with fancy fittings, alas, did not have hot water…. And then in my mind I walk to the room which is not a ‘super deluxe room’ and go directly into the bathroom. The taps…
No Hot Water Sir..!
Went out of the city two days ago, and as I entered the fancy hotel where I was put up, I was told by the manager, “Sir, you have been given a super deluxe room!” “Thank you,” I said, quite impressed by the way the ‘super’ was stressed by the…
A Bigger Fool than the Fool..!
The only certainty of life is death. And yet most of us continue living as if death will never visit us. We do not prepare ourselves for it and live as if we are going to live forever. A little girl lay dying and she was afraid. Her friend, the…
Ease the Pounding of my Heart.!
Many years ago, much before the invention of the cell phone, there were many moments you could have a break. Take traveling in a local train; it was so different! You jumped into the compartment, got a seat for yourself if you were lucky, and then as the carriages rolled…
Try Prayer Power..!
Says Norman Vincent Peale, “the only way to make prayer work is simply to pray. Reading about prayer, discussing prayer, hearing about prayer will bring few results unless you actually pray. A poorly dressed lady walked into a grocery store. She softly explained that her husband was very ill and…
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.