Spreading Myself Thick..!
Now that I’ve crossed the seven seas and a bit of turbulence to visit my children and grandchildren in the US, a strange thought tiptoes into my head: “How thin can I spread myself?” You see, the trip’s not just a ‘grandpa popping in for hugs and gifts’ routine. No…
Is Your Life Worth Keeping?
The Reader’s Digest had a story that’s stayed on my mind. Not because it was dramatic, or tear-jerking, or filled with grand revelations, but because it was simple, painfully true, and quietly powerful. It was about a man who was tired of his job. Tired of the routine, the pressure, the monotony….
Stand Like the Oak, Don’t Sway like a Reed..!
Many who come to me to learn how to write or speak, are a little disappointed when they hear that the gift of being able to write well or speak powerfully comes with a caveat. That you will use this gift to be able to stand tall, stand firm, and…
Why a Disabled Child..!
It was many years ago that I landed at the hospital where my wife practiced, to meet the mother of a baby who had been born with a physical deformity. The mother was not there but the grandmother was. “Why?” she sobbed, “did God do this to my daughter. Hasn’t…
Call Discouragement a Liar..!
There were tears in her eyes when I entered the room many years ago. I knew she had been on the phone and I wondered who had made her cry. “Dad,” she asked, “am I a failure?” “Are you?” I asked. “I don’t know,” she said, her eyes brimming 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.