Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
’Tis not often Liberty Island ferrymen and those that ply the Ellis island ferry around New York show agitation. “She was crying,” said a ferryman to his wife that night, “I swear I saw them tears roll down the Statue of Liberty’s cheeks!” “Oh, the poor thing!” cried his wife….
Even a President can incite a mob! A Lawmaker Inciting men and women to become lawbreakers! What the world saw happening to the greatest democracy on earth should be a lesson they should never forget! On my visits to the US, and to Washington, standing outside the fence of the…
Sir Niceness, nearly lost out in the four years that the White House was occupied by a boorish, loud, arrogant president, and though many reasons have been attributed to his downfall, despite fulfilling many of his promises, most voters, at least a little over half of America, wanted someone nice…
A few days ago, I came out of my bath with my hair wet and used the hairdryer. My mind was elsewhere and after a while, feeling my hair, I found it was still wet and then laughed out loud, the hairdryer though on, was pointed to the floor, and…
Even as I hear the dying cry of George Floyd gasping, ‘I can’t breathe!’ I wonder who it is that cannot breathe? Is it the black minority that gasps under the weight of a white majority? Or is it the white majority that sees African Americans enjoying their same freedom,…
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.
