Two Wives..!
Quite often some public figure caught in the public glare, having a rollicking time with someone other than his wife, exclaims, “Leave my private life alone!” What he means is that he’s got two lives, one for the public eye and the other not for us to look at. And…
Demanding a Better Place..!
When I go to hear a friend or colleague speak, or attend a service, I love sitting in as inconspicuous a place as possible. There are many reasons for doing so, one, because I’ve come for the specific purpose of listening to someone speak, and secondly my thoughts are not…
Behind the Stone Wall Mountain…!
Once upon a time, two hermits, moved by the desire of sanctifying themselves, lived in a hostile, rocky desert. Their caves faced each other. After years of intense prayer and terrible mortifications, one hermit was convinced that he had arrived at the summit of perfection. The other was equally pious, but…
Bartering with God..!
Very often I pass church, temple or mosque and see crowds outside. Initially I used to think that God must be so pleased to have so many worshipping him, till I realized very few came to worship, most came to barter with him, “God, please give me a promotion, and…
Big Bike, Big Noise..!
Every day around the time I start writing this column, I hear a loud sound like rolling thunder. The first day I thought the army was sending tanks after me, about something I’d written, and shook with fear, till my wife said it was okay, and it was just our…
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.