The World Won’t Stop For You..!
One day, while standing on the balcony of a tall building, I looked down and saw a funeral taking place in a cemetery. I also saw next to the same graveyard, a football field, where a game was in progress. It was a strange feeling, seeing sorrowful emotions on one…
Are Your Children a Spittin’ Image of You?
The doctor said to a new father, “You have a cute baby.” “I bet you say that to all the new parents,” smiled the proud daddy. “No,” he replied, “just to those whose babies really are good-looking.” “So what do you say to the others?” “I say, ‘He’s the spittin’…
What Words Of Comfort Can You Give Them?
This morning just as I heard that someone I knew had passed away because of the deadly virus, I knew that many such deaths would start taking place and those who were left behind and grieving, needed our comfort and solace… What words of comfort can we give them? Click…
Reach Out to the Covid Hit People..!
As more people are falling sick to the stalking virus, I’m beginning to see that sadly a stigma is being cast on them and their families! Is the world actually so cruel? I remember the story of a kid in school, who was vaccinated with a painful injection in the…
Daughters..!
And as I opened the papers today, I was startled to see a former Madhya Pradesh minister and Congress leader Jitu Patwari tweeting that the ruling party had given birth to five “daughters”- noteban, GST, inflation, unemployment and recession- in its bid to beget a “son” called development. In other…
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.