Insuring Your Assets..!
A few years ago I read that Holly Madison, the former girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, insured an attractive part of her body for 1 million dollars. She said that she insured her famous assets with Lloyd’s of London to protect them while appearing in her Las Vegas production,…
Old Darned Socks!
The socks I wore this morning were darned ones! Huge holes had been finally told to shut up. I had been using them during the lockdown for my daily walk and since the walk I did was on my terrace and there was no one around, I had allowed those…
Anger Management During the Lockdown..!
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind,” Robert Ingersoll. Just before the lockdown I was at a police station trying to keep a son of a friend of mine out of jail. The boy had been driving his dad’s car when he was hit by a school bus. He…
Turning Insults to Your Advantage..!
As I watch many of our present-day politicians, company heads and other leaders, I notice that insults flow glibly from their tongue. It seems to be an effective way of bashing their opponents. But I do believe the only way to win against them is by turning those insults around,…
Create a Peaceful Park In Your Head..!
“How peaceful it’s in here!” said a friend of mine as he sat in my living room. “Peaceful?” I asked surprised. My friend went to the window and opened another shutter, “Can you hear the rustling of the leaves? You are so lucky Bob, you have a peepul tree just…
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.