The Heavenly Choir..!
Somewhere in the realms of Heaven two thousand years ago, the angel with the beautiful voice heard the gong struck thrice. “That’s the choir practice bell!” she cried excitedly to her friends, flapping her beautiful wings and running down the heavenly corridor to the choral hall, where the heavenly choir…
The Opposition and Christmas..!
There’s a lesson this Christmas for the Opposition! Especially seeing their futile efforts to be heard, rendering them more speechless, through suspensions or corruption charges. Two thousand years ago, a once powerful Jewish people lay powerless under a Roman Empire, which left them longing for their messiah or the…
An ‘Intolerant’ Santa..!
Santa climbed gingerly from his sleigh onto the roof of a home in Mumbai, “These Indian chimneys are stupid!” he cursed loudly to Mrs Santa Claus who was holding the reindeer while Santa went down to unload his gifts, “Why can’t they make them like we make them back home?”…
The Christmas Rage..!
A little baby in a manger, so calm, so peaceful! And in a million make believe cribs in shopping malls and elsewhere, plastic dolls, with ever so sweet smiles on their plastic lips look up from equally artificial cribs of cleverly crafted wood and smile at passersby, who coo in…
‘No Room!’ Shout Mobs and Lawmakers, but..!
“No room!’ shout mobs as they rampage churches, burn Bibles!” “No room,” growl same mobs throwing stones on cross, on pulpit!” “No room for you here,” they whisper as in the silence of night they set a priest afire. “No room! No room! No room in this nation!” chant mobs…
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.