A Hug For Luck..!
He sat in his room, an old man. The pain was killing him, his arthritis was getting worse and as he looked at the faded pictures adorning his walls of children far away, his heart ached. Suddenly, the doorbell rang. She stood outside the door of his flat, “I’m Diana’s…
A Marriage with DARE..!
If my column is a tad late today, and you wonder why, what’s happened to the sound of it arriving in your mobiles, it’s all because of a wedding last night ,where I had to raise the toast, and as you know raising the toast doesn’t end with just glasses…
Nobody Saw Him Fall..!
He fell! He hadn’t seen the paver block sticking out, uneven, arrogant, catching his worn out, treadles soles and throwing him forward with a lurch. He lay quietly, waiting for arms he knew would come to help him up. But there were none. He thought of friends, men and women…
Love Your Dog, Love the World..!
This morning as I walked Jeff, my now old German –Shepherd dog, a new neighbor, looked at it with a grimace on her face and to such people do I address today’s piece: I had been to my childhood home a few years back: A friend who came along, watched…
Why Did I Take the Train?
“Why did you take the train?” asked my friend, as he met me on the platform and stared curiously at my untidy and disheveled look, “You could have come by air?” “Aha!” I said, and grinned, “I saw my dad!” “But your dad’s been dead many years Bob?” “I knew…
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.