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…
Suspended Midair…!
Was sitting in my terrace garden this morning and heard the somewhat irritating sound of crows cawing out loud. Normally this means one of them is injured or there’s a monkey around, and they’re all set to attack the poor fellow. I decided to save the victim or shoo the…
Be A Hero Today..!
Millions fought the two world wars. Many, petrified by the sound of gunfire, terrified, each moment could be their last. And then from such as these and those who were afraid, sprang heroes! Heroes, who rushed into the heart of the firing, braving bayonets and bullets, captured strategic posts. Heroes,…
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.