Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
Years ago I remember going over to the school my children were studying in. I met the teacher and asked how my daughter was doing. “She’s good,” said the teacher, “she knows all the answers but hesitates to put up her hand!” “Why?” I asked bewildered. “She’s scared to be…
Why did my wife go down with the Covid-19 virus? Isolated for fifteen days, initially with a high viral count? Why did God allow this to happen? Such thoughts rankled in me. A few days before the viral attack, a young friend, from another faith had rung me up, “Uncle,…
The other day there was a friendly debate on a WhatsApp group about building a successful enterprise, where one of us talked about faith and the other that hard work was all that was needed, and finally a third joined in who agreed that hard work was needed in any…
I love Jungle Book, especially Balu the bear and his antics. What I love most is the song he sings to little Mowgli: “Look for the bare necessities The simple bare necessities Forget your worries and your strife I mean the bare necessities Old Mother Nature recipes That bring 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.
