Stand Tall Like The Bamboo..!
A doctor friend dropped in one night, he appeared sad and beaten. A patient who had been operated upon in his hospital had gone into coma for no fault of his or his staff and now he was hounded by the media, police and even members of the local community,…
Are You A Rabbit?
Got you, didn’t I? You thought I was calling you a Walt Disney bunny rabbit, didn’t you? One of those hopping four legged furry fellows who multiply as quickly as you put them together, but no, it’s not that type of a rabbit I’m talking about. Did you know when…
Lockdown’s Like a Butterfly’s Cocoon..!
How we would like to get out of bed every morning, knowing there was no problem to face, right? Wrong! If that’s what your thoughts are, because those same challenges make the difference between you flying high, and you crawling low! I’m going to use an old example, bear with…
Broken Bits of Glass..!
The story is told of a man in charge of building a great cathedral, who was pestered by an apprentice who wanted to design and arrange the glass for just one of the windows. Although he did not want to discourage so laudable an ambition, neither did the boss want…
A Sheet of Snow White Paper..!
One section of a bookshop that always beckons me seductively, is where they display stationary. It isn’t books by famous authors that has me enthralled, or shelves that contain classics by writers of yore, nor crime or fiction, but empty pads of white paper that come in all shapes and…
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.