Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
Last night, I watched the diyas outside homes, their little flames pushing back the darkness. No speeches. No publicity department. No enormous photograph of the person who had lit them. Just light doing what light is supposed to do. I wondered whether we could persuade a few of those diyas…
In the evenings I love sitting under my peepul tree and watching the darkness through the leaves. There is something soothing about that slow merging of light and night, as if the day is saying a polite goodbye. In the last few days, that same darkness is being threatened by…
One of the most beautiful sights of my childhood was to see little flames dancing on the compound walls of my neighbors, every Diwali: Not the colored bulbs of today, so standard and artificial, but actual little flames, and as little lights danced out of small earthen pots filled with…
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.
