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…
Sorry..!
Quite often I see an apology in the newspapers for some news item wrongly reported, or see a crime movie where the slick lawyer says, “I’m sorry your honour!’ But in both cases, I know it was either the fear of litigation or repercussions from His Lordship that brought on…
The Helpful Sounds of Silence..!
A wise old bird sat on an oak- The more he saw, the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Lord make me like that wise old bird.-Anon For two weeks I’d stopped carrying my phone. My friends thought I was crazy. “Bob!” they cried, “we…
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.