Admit When Wrong..!
One night while watching George C. Scott acting as a New York cop in an old movie my thoughts went back many decades when dad had taken my brother and me to see the movie ‘Patton.’ I hero worshipped the General as he won battle after battle for the allied…
Give Others a Second Chance..!
Very often people with a bad past change, but do we give them a second chance? Listen to the story of former Mayor Anthony Williams. He was born to an unwed teen who gave him up for adoption. He was known as a “problem child” in foster care. By age…
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:…
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.