Finding We’ve Got Goodness Inside..!
It was a few years ago I landed at the hospital where my wife is a doctor to meet the mother of a baby who had been born with a physical deformity. The child’s grandmother was sobbing, “Why?” she wept, “did God do this to my granddaughter?” There was really…
Open the Door, Step Out..!
Met a friend of mine, and we spent some time chatting with each other. “You know Bob,” he said, “I grew up in Ahmadabad and when I told my family I was going to Mumbai they asked me if I had taken leave of my senses. They told me how…
Catch Hold of the Moment
Many people I know put off something that brings them joy, just because they feel they have no time, don’t have it on their schedule or are too rigid to depart from their routine. I thought of all those women on the Titanic who did not eat their dessert after…
Bare Necessities..!
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…
The Buck Stops With You..!
Something I always hear is every government blaming everything on a previous government. It’s a blame game that doesn’t happen only in the government, it happens just about anywhere. “I cannot get a promotion, because my parents didn’t send me for MBA!” “If I had had a love marriage, not…
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.