Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
Ah! The awesome, exalting sound of a pipe organ as it fills a hall! What a magnificent, glorious sound! And what a majestic looking instrument; its flute like pipes rising high into the roof and seemingly disappearing into the heavens! Years ago as a youngster I joined a choir. The…
She was short, squat and dowdy, and as I ran to join the group of tourists at the heritage building I wondered what this women was doing as a guide. The lady looked up over the heads of the others and instead of annoyance, smiled, and suddenly I saw more…
As my younger one celebrates her birthday today, I’m going to reproduce an article of mine on her that was published many years back in the Indian Express: She had got up twice during the night I heard later, hoping to catch the tooth fairy at work. The next morning…
I love pipe organs and won’t spare an opportunity to write a story around them: In a large stone cathedral in Europe there was a large, magnificent pipe organ. It was a Saturday afternoon, and the caretaker was making one final check of the organ high in the balcony at…
She was still staring at her husband; eyes full of love, and yes, some other expression, as though she was seeing his face after a long time. The owner of the horse cart turned away after looking at the couple, he couldn’t figure out how a wife could still have…
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.
