Fun Being Myself..!
Quite a few years back, I remember a flag hoisting: I watched as my dear friend slowly made her way across to hoist the flat. She was eighty-four. “Bob,” she used to say, “In Jalandhar where I lived with my husband, I used to be known for who I was,…
Real Beauty is Inside..!
Real beauty, is not what you see outside, but real beauty is inside as this story related by a lady shows: ‘Our house was directly across Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to outpatients at the clinic. One summer evening as I was…
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…
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.