Passion, It’s Free..!
If today’s column has come in a little late, t’was because I was in the plane flying home from New York. And even as I flew something that stands out vividly in that city is it’s passion! A passion for enjoying work with subways and roads filled with millionaires and…
My Visiting Card..!
“We’re getting a visiting card made for you sir!” said someone on my staff, and I shuddered. It’s become fashionable today to hand out business cards or so it seems to me, as cards, nineteen to the dozen are dished out to me. “Pleased to meet you,” I say extending…
His Four Wives..!
Was walking yesterday with a friend who had just undergone a bypass; he looked a little despondent. “When I was in the hospital Bob,” he said turning ashen, “I suddenly realized that all that I had worked for and striven to get I would not be able to take with…
Hugging Our Fear..!
No, no! I’m not talking of the political hugs being given worldwide, even to the Pope by a political leader! But years ago I spent some of my evenings with a friend who had a kidney problem. He had just got out of dialysis with a new donated kidney which…
Self-Pity and the Snow Storm..!
Many years ago while reading the book, Silas Marner by George Eliot, I remember the way one of the characters, Molly dies in a snow storm. She trudges through the falling snow and finding it increasingly difficult to walk, stumbles, falls, then takes the last bit of opium she carries…
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.