The Horrors and Joy of Solitary Confinement..!
It wasn’t the brutal whipping by guards, nor torture by prison officials, prisoners were afraid of, but the horror of solitary confinement. They were dragged screaming from their cells, to be alone with themselves for twenty- four hours, quite often a week, or sometimes for very, very long periods of…
Choose Your Face..!
Some of the most beautiful women I’ve seen and some of the handsomest men I’ve met don’t have fair skin and sharp features, do not possess great height and sensual bodies but as they walk and talk and stalk the earth their beauty is gazed upon with wonder and reverence!…
Feel Alive through Silence..!
A few years ago, my wife and I had been to Chicago during winter, and stayed in the basement of a house for over a month. I loved the place, for the very reason many hate basements; it was a deep silence that reigned there. The world today hates silence:…
Flash a Beam of Light..!
A friend of mine and I were doing our morning walk a few years ago, when he told me about this seventeen year old boy in Mulund who had been diagnosed with blood cancer. “I know someone else who had the same disease and came out of it,” I said….
Look at the Process..!
Something I love doing when on the treadmill every morning is to listen to good talks, and this morning it was by a very famous preacher, who said, “People hear me preaching and say, ‘I would like to become as good a preacher as you, and do you know what…
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.