Cutting Vegetables..!
I wrote this as I sat at a home for the aged and someone I’d come to meet over there hadn’t turned up so I had a little time, and I pulled my iPad out and started to write. ‘As I look up I see the most serious activity going…
When I’m Wrong..!
It is accurately said that it is easy to be an angel when nobody ruffles your feathers. But it seems that feather rufflers will always be around. We’re told that 19th Century German statesman Prince Otto von Bismarck once became so incensed at the criticism of a professor, that he…
The Wheelchair..!
These were words I saw in a mosque in Fatehpur Sikri: “The world is a bridge, pass over it, but build not your dwelling there!” The great Fuller was one day taken to the Bank of England, where one of the clerks showed him some gold bars. He took one…
Partying, Prayers and His Presence..!
Something that happens with increasing frequency in a party where everybody is on the floor, swirling and moving passionately to good music under the expert guidance of a professional emcee is the host turning to me and saying, “Bob, will you please pray!” I, also am into the music and…
Slacken Your Bow..!
Something I hear very often is the word, ‘stress’. According to a Greek legend, in ancient Athens a man noticed the great storyteller Aesop playing childish games with some little boys. He laughed and jeered at Aesop, asking him why he wasted his time in such frivolous activity. Aesop responded…
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.