Reach Out and Touch..!
Up there in heaven, Mother Teresa, or St Teresa as she is now, must be looking down with sadness at the dying, the destitute, the poor and sick all over the world. She must be wishing she could still reach down and touch broken people and make them whole again….
Fear Is The Key..!
There are no cockroaches in Manhattan, where I am at the moment, at least they are not as visible or apparent as they are back home, but here, nearly every train, subway or metro, bus and even taxis carry a message about how the cockroach is lurking, waiting, behind sinks,…
Simple Joys with Deep Meaning..!
He was staring at his phone, as I sat next to him on the bench in the park, “Terrible!” he exclaimed. “What is?” I asked, staring at his distraught face. “I put up a new picture of myself on Facebook, and no one’s commented, not even one like! My day…
Lost in Mere Rituals..!
When I saw Biden taking his oath on an old family Bible that looked like it hadn’t been opened for years I wondered whether it was on the words inside the Bible he swore an oath by or did he feel the old book was a good luck charm? A…
Gangsters and Public Speaking..!
While taking a class on public speaking in the academy I run, I told my class how important public speaking was in life. Many of us I told my students would not get opportunities to speak on podiums or stages, but there were other times it would come in useful…
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.