Experience Silence and Feel Alive..!
The other day when I went onto the treadmill, I was asked why I didn’t play music while exercising and realized quite often I prefer silence! The world today hates silence: In fact, I’m beginning to think, people are scared of silence. There was a time I traveled by the…
How Do You Walk?
An old priest once stopped me and said, “I would love to meet your dad!” “Why?” I asked laughing, “I hope you don’t want to complain to him about me?” He smiled, “No Bob, I’ve seen the way you and your brother walk, and am sure you both got your…
Leave the Familiar..!
On my last visit to Chicago while walking through a college campus, I was pleasantly surprised to see a museum piece in the compound. It was an ancient wagon, the type the first settlers in America used, when they crossed the continent with their families to settle on land thousands…
Learning to Lose Gracefully..!
Many of my close friends, are going to say, “Bob, we know times, when you’ve lost and were quite a bad loser!” Very true. I hate losing but something, I and many of us have to learn is how to lose gracefully! It’s a pretty competitive world today, but the…
Welcome the Unexpected..!
One morning I found my driver hadn’t come for work, because he was drunk, and I felt very angry about it. Angry, because I disliked my morning being ruined by the unexpected. We all hate anything unexpected, but quite often it’s during that unexpected time that strange things happen! A…
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.