The Handsomest in the Room..!
I’ve always been fond of John. Short fellow, yes, but he somehow looked taller than most—on stage, in a crowd, even over a steaming cup of cutting chai. People said he wasn’t good-looking, but I’d seen enough pretty girls clinging to his arm to know otherwise. What he had was…
Dare to be Aligned..!
This Saturday, I’ve been asked to speak to a gathering about my book DARE. Now, you’d think I’d strut in with a PowerPoint presentation, a rehearsed TED Talk tone, and the swagger of someone whose book has changed the world. No, I plan to do something far more dangerous. I’m…
Don’t Retire from Life..!
Quite a few of us wait to retire. We long for the days when we have nothing to do, go nowhere and stay put. I do believe too many of such days can be boring and quite disastrous. My neighbor Mr Kishore retired the other day and since our terraces…
I’ll Still Take the Risk..!
A few months ago, I lent a friend some money and he hasn’t been able to pay me back. “You’re a fool Bob!” said many of my friends, “you knew it was a losing proposition, why did you venture where angels fear to tread?” I shrugged my shoulders and smiled; all…
Make Your Luck Improve…!
Many years ago, I was looking for a subcontractor to do a huge job, and had zeroed on one man and called him to the site for an interview. He came two hours late, and by the time he came, I gave the contract to another. “It’s my bad luck!”…
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.