Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
There’s enough that’s been written about the car crash that took the life of billionaire Cyrus Mistry, and I’m not going to wade into those already muddied waters. However, something that struck me as I read our transport minister’s statement after the accident, was the sudden focus on using seat…
“Where are we going grandpa?” asked the little fellow as he was all dressed up and ready to go. “To the airport!” said the grandfather, “to welcome your father back.” “Dad!” shouted the little fellow as his father came out of the airport, “Dad, do you enjoy staying in the…
This morning the first piece of news was from a classmate telling me, “He’s gone Bob!” “Who?” I asked. “My brother!” she said, “I’m now on a plane, on the way to attend his funeral!” How terrible is the finality of death especially when it’s a member of your family…
……….The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion: he has given it to them to protect the helpless……… …… Sri Ramakrishna. As I hear about the deaths due to bombings in Ukraine my heart goes out to the suffering families and yet I know there is more…
Ever so often I come across someone grieving, and I try to comfort them with this small story: In a quiet pond lived a little colony of water creatures. They were a happy colony, living far away from the sun, busy, scurrying over the soft mud on the bottom of…
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.
