Gestures of the Heart..!
Even a small gesture impacts us, doesn’t it? African-American poet Countee Cullen spent the summer when he was eight in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly after he arrived he noticed a little white boy staring at him. Countee smiled, but the little boy did not smile back. Instead, he stuck out his…
Kshamavani Parv, and A Forgiveness Hug….!
In a little over a week, the Jains will celebrate Kshamavani Parv, which means, “Forgiveness Day” . It is one of the most significant days for the followers of Jainism, as it is the day of forgiving and seeking forgiveness. Corrie Ten Boom lived peacefully with her father and sister in…
Laughter and Tough Times..!
My father loved cowboy pictures and also enjoyed watching war movies, but the reason he relished them wasn’t so much the action but the humour. “Just watch their one liners in a tough situation Bob!” He used to tell me and we laughed together as soldiers in the thick of…
Local Trains, Self-Pity and Snow Storms..!
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…
Positive Motivation..!
There I was in the bathroom, sometime back with a screwdriver in my hand and a pair of pliers getting the soap tray fixed. I worked hard and as I did, I wondered how my wife had managed to get me to do it. Most often, after she left for…
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.