Are You Tiptoeing Through Life?
Years ago in school, I was once one of the shyest boys around. Girls teased me no end, and other boys bullied me till one day at the morning assembly, I heard my head master say something that changed my life. “Most people,” he said, “tiptoe through life and finally…
Koffee with Karan and True Beauty..!
Many years ago I was watching ‘Koffee with Karan’ and enjoyed him interviewing the late Rishi Kapoor and wife Neetu. Theirs was a marriage that had lasted quite a few decades and in the film kingdom this is a record of sorts. What I loved best however was when Neetu…
Running Out of Steam..!
Today, as I listen to the political noise, the talk by rivals, the rabid thrusts, the bluster and blabber, the eyeball looks, and ferocious threats, I think of the steam engine! In my mind, even today, there is no ferocious, powerful, robust, beast, like the steam engine of yesterday. Even…
Are You a ‘Strong’ Peter?
My initial years of writing were spent in exploring poetry and then one day as a sixteen year old, through the efforts of my mother, I started writing radio plays for a radio station in Addis Ababa , and then into regular plays, one of which comes to my mind…
There’s A Book Inside You..!
Yes, there’s a book inside most of us, waiting to be written. Each of us go through experiences in life which may be quite similar to those others face, but how we face them, win over circumstances, fight the odds, build our faith, sometimes lose it, watch friends disappear, see…
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.