You and Your Walking Stick..!
One day while it was snowing in New York, I happened to glance outside and saw a young girl. She walked on the pavement opposite mine, and I stood transfixed! She went at a gait that left everybody else behind, and in this city where time is a major factor,…
Train Yourself to Look Up..!
I love reading the comments for my columns from readers, and something I’ve noticed is that there are readers who get motivated by the inspirational columns, and others who say, ‘it can’t be done!’ There’s a picture I saw in a magazine, it showed two passengers in a train, one…
Become a Bold Woman..!
Even as we discussed the Karnataka rapes yesterday and how women are being made to look weak because of insecure men, begs the question, should women wait for men to become confident, before they can walk into spaces which traditionally men have occupied? “We can’t wait anymore for our insecure…
Ease the Pounding of my Heart.!
Many years ago, much before the invention of the cell phone, there were many moments you could have a break. Take traveling in a local train; it was so different! You jumped into the compartment, got a seat for yourself if you were lucky, and then as the carriages rolled…
Pulling Up Your Crop..!
How often we are so impatient to see the results of some effort we are putting into some venture or other! We might have to study day and night and wonder whether it is worth it and whether we are wasting our time. “If only we could see our future!”…
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.