Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
There is something amusing about how we view the one who sits a little higher than us. We look at the boss in a cool cabin, or the owner in a comfortable car, and feel that life has dealt them a sweeter hand. Many years ago when I ran my…
Every morning while in New York I had to walk past the mayor’s lovely villa, to get to the riverfront in Manhattan to do my morning walk, and today, as I read about young Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York’s mayoral elections, I felt a thrill ripple through me. Thirty-two…
Was watching the interview of Jemima Rodrigues who with an unbeaten 127 runs against the mighty Australians, steered the Indian women’s cricket team into the World Cup final. There she stood, tears cruising down her tired face, and instead of boasting about her shots or her timing, she kept repeating…
Two ‘touching’ scenes come to my mind: One is a national leader going round the world intent on touching everyone he meets internationally by hugging them, and another, again a national leader but in the opposition going round the country, first in a walk across the nation and otherwise just…
And as I see the battle royal raging in the Congress as to who will sit on the throne, I must say that most of our leaders in other political parties look pretty uncomfortable on the thrones they are sitting one and occupy just a portion of the royal chair….
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.
