Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
“Your bedroom’s a mess!” “It’s not!” I tell my friends, “It’s a clutter of memories!” “A clutter of what?” they gasp, “Just look at that air cooler on which all your books are kept, why d’ you need it here when the room’s air conditioned?” “Ah!” I tell them, “that…
Today, they’re five years old! And I reproduce what I wrote of them when they surfaced on earth: There’s two young men, twins, who’ve come into my life, and as I hold either one or the other of my daughter’s newborns in my hands, I hear voices, “He’s got your…
It was while visiting my old choir friends last month, I remembered this incident many years ago: “Sing the solo Bob!” the then conductor had asked me. “No,” I whispered, “I just want to sit in the choir pew I sat in many decades ago, and thank the God of…
“Watch out!” I shouted at the man, as he nearly walked into my parked car. “Can’t you see where you’re going?” I asked. “No,” he said, “I’m blind.” I walked upto him and took his hand in mine, I was glad he could not see the tears in my eyes…
DREAMS CAN WAIT by Robert Clements (Published in the Indian Express Newspaper, 16th Feb, 1996) Today on her birthday I remember this article fondly….. The tall beautiful twelve year old girl waved her “dandiya’ stick at me and smiled. I looked at her, my grown-up daughter and my mind went…
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.
