Enjoy Growing Old..!
How often I meet people who fight the fact they are growing old. Here are some lines for them on ageing, some borrowed and some my own: ‘Old age is a gift. I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to…
Your Next Lucky Break…!
I do like to believe I don’t believe anymore in bad luck or good luck, but a few years ago, I was walking my twelfth round at the joggers park when a friend invited me to walk an extra one with him. “Not one but two,” I told him jovially…
The Sad Train of Donegal..!
It was a choice between visiting a castle in Donegal, Ireland or going to a train museum. I love trains and decided I’d prefer the train museum, but it was a different museum from what my wife and I had expected. It was a museum about a train line that…
Just Arrange Your Mind..!
The ninety two year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move…
Go Bob, Go…!
No, this article isn’t about me, though like you even I could do with some cheerleaders cheering me once in a way. As I watch the cheerleaders at the IPL matches I remember an article that appeared in one of our national dailies, and as I read on, tears came…
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.