Handling YOUR Grief, Fear and Suffering..!
This happened exactly seven years ago: I still shudder as I remember that early morning call, “Bob, your mother just passed away!” “Ma!” I’d screamed, and my cry echoed in my empty house, empty because my wife and children were abroad, “Ma, can’t I just phone you like I normally…
Walking Them Down the Aisle..!
It was just over a year ago I walked my younger one down the aisle to hand her over to the new man in her life and around seven years before that I had done the same for my eldest, and the feelings I underwent were exactly the same: Months…
When I Interviewed a World Heavyweight Boxing Champ..!
My phone rang as I drove home one night many years ago. It was from a newspaper I wrote for, “Would you like to interview Evander Holyfield, the boxer?” “Ofcourse,” I said and images came to me of a badly bruised boxing heavy weight with a part of his ear…
Whisker of A Tiger..!
As we face another two weeks of lockdown, there are many homes where patience has run out, as conflicts between family members have risen especially among husbands and wives, parents and children, sometimes quite alarming. And so, this story: Once upon a time in Siam there lived a young newly…
The Glass Bowl..!
As a child I don’t remember ever having to ask my dad or my mother, money for my daily needs. All the money that was needed for the day lay in a small glass bowl. It looked after bus fares, the loaf of bread for the evening, vegetables for the…
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.