Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
In the gigantic auditorium in Manila, in the Philippines, her voice richer than that of a nightingale filled the hall. We singers stood behind her. We were the choir she sang for, and felt proud, as the audience in one accord rose and gave her a standing ovation! There were…
He fell! The pavement had been unkind to him, he hadn’t seen the sharp stone sticking out, uneven, arrogant, catching his worn out, treadles soles and throwing him forward with a lurch. He lay quietly on the ground, waiting for arms he knew would come to help him up, but…
She was beautiful! She was Pakistani! She strolled over to where I sat, on the banks of the St Lawrence, in the USA, just before the river rolled into the Great Niagara. “May I sit here with you?” she asked. “Sure,” I said and made place for her on the…
“I am a very secular person!” announced Mrs Kapoor one day to the girls at home, who were her paying guests, “I don’t care if you are Punjabi or Bihari or South Indian!” And then she heard the noise. It was the sound of the door opening in the empty…
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.
