Soap In My Mouth, Detergent In My Stomach..!
Maybe, tis my late mother’s birthday today, that brings this very poignant memory to my mind, of her coming to pick me up from school when I was a little fellow, and finding I was punished, “What’s his punishment?” asked my mother, quite okay that if Bob did something wrong,…
Let Go, Let God..!
You would think this lockdown period would give us forced time to be still and rest, wouldn’t you? But from what I hear, worry, and despair, has made this quarantine a time of frenzied struggle. We are not battling with competitors outside but warring with imaginary demons inside our mind….
Plane Crash Before Takeoff..!
“Sir, do you know to fly this aircraft? Here are the instructions!” “No need for instructions, I know everything about flying!” A few years ago, a spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger aero-plane ever built, sat just outside its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime….
Empty, Sacred, Holy, Religious Places..!
It was a unanimous decision by all the people staying in the housing complex, to find where God was. They decided to send a delegation to all the places of worship, and since the lockdown had been enforced and only one person could go out at a time, they decided…
I Did Not Know His Name..!
I did not know his name. Everyday, I went up to my terrace and smiled back as he gave me a smile. I looked at his work as with skill and dexterity, with sharp eye and nimble hand, he shaped and moulded my once broken terrace wall, into straight lines,…
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.