A Delay Could Save Your Life..!
I pressed the horn, stomped on the accelerator, cursed the driver in the next car and nearly shouted at the traffic policeman. “What’s the matter dad?” my daughter asked. “I hate being late,” I grumbled. “D’you know of all the people whose lives were saved because they were late?” “After…
Silence Ain’t Golden No More..!
How often we are told that silence is golden. No, it isn’t always so; sometimes it’s plain yellow! Yes, the yellow of cowardice. The yellow of running away from a confrontation. The yellow of keeping your mouth shut when it should have protested. The phrase “silence is not always golden”…
Trust the Director..!
Something I loved doing and still love, is directing some of the plays I’ve written. But even as I directed the same, I would always see a difference in how members of the cast treated my directional skills. Those who I had directed before, would be like putty in my…
Grabbing Property..!
Something that breaks relationships, especially among siblings is the grabbing of property, oftimes in a way, in which one brother or sister gets less, or is cheated out of what is rightfully theirs. Or, it could be grabbing someone else’s property. Do you think garnering property will bring happiness into…
Stuck in the Basecamp…!
So, here’s the thing: You’ve decided to climb Everest. You train yourself to become agile and fit, buy all the necessary paraphernalia, take a train, bus or flight and reach the base camp of Mount Everest. And there you are overjoyed. You can see the top of Everest from here,…
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.