Reach Out And Touch..!
He was an old man, well into his eighties and I had always been particularly fond of him. I entered his room in the hospital and found him bent with his back to me doing something to his leg. I walked up and gently touched him, “Bob,” he said, “my…
Burying the Past..!
The worried looking man entered the doctor’s clinic and allowed himself to be thoroughly examined. “You’re okay,” smiled the doc, “but something seems to be on your mind?” “Well, to tell you the truth doc,” said the worried man, “I seem to be getting forgetful! No it’s actually worse than…
A Heart On Fire..!
I looked at a motley lot of people who had come to me to learn the art of public speaking. As I began the talk my heart sank; they looked anything but people who would one day get up and wax eloquent. There was a shy school girl who couldn’t…
Trim your Bristles..!
It was during these covid times I wandered, worry writ on my face as bills piled up at home, and money was not what it used to be, when I imagined I heard a voice ringing out to me, “Hi!” “Hi!” I offered back in return as a stranger with…
Threading the Needle..!
Today I’m going to borrow a story from my book, DARE: He had the thickest pair of glasses I’d ever seen: During my childhood they called it soda bottle spectacles, because those days the soda came in a thick glass bottle, with a marble on top which you pressed down…
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.