Uncles With Tails..!
She was just seventeen, French and weeping on my daughter’s shoulder as she came out of the restaurant where we’d partied last night. “What’s up?” I asked my little one, “Why’s she crying?” “What kind of friends do you have dad?” asked my daughter as she walked with the weeping…
Are YOU Courteous at Home?
“Your husband,” I told the pretty lady standing at the entrance of the park where I walk everyday, “is such a polite man!” “Why what does he do?” asked the lady. “He wishes everybody during his morning walk,” said the chairman of the committee which maintained the park. “He helps…
Lifted up…!
While thinking of my late mother I remembered a conversation I’d had with her: ‘Bob d’you remember the times Dad carried you, when you walked with him on the hills?” “Yes, ma,” I’d said. “You were scared to jump from one rock to another, and Dad used to stoop down,…
The Trust Factor..!
Last week an incident with my neighbours nearly broke my trust in people, but then I reminded myself how many years ago while directing a play, I saw a bedraggled fellow standing at the entrance to the hall. “What do you want?” I asked. “Money to go back to my…
Why Reward Honesty?
Read in the newspaper this morning that an auto driver had been rewarded because of his honesty in returning a wallet. I do applaud his honesty, but a question comes to my mind ‘is honesty so rare that when found it has to be rewarded?” A 15-year-old boy learned 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.