How Strong Is Your Table?
Page after page of all the newspapers are filled with deaths and other grim situations of the pandemic, so much so that smiles, grins and laughter seem to have disappeared and yes, the masks haven’t helped! A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in…
My Nose, Her Cheeks, His Heart..!
There’s two little fellows, twins, who came into my life just over two years ago, and now as they and their mother, my daughter, are stuck with me because of the lockdown, and can’t return to their home in New York, I hear neighbour voices, “He’s got your nose Bob!”…
The Smuggler’s Handshake..!
“…Just say a simple ‘yes’ I will, or a ‘no’ I won’t. Your word is enough..” Matthew 5: 37 While running a business, I came across many types of customers: One I’ll never forget was a smuggler who lived near the seacoast, in Versova. I remember when I finalized a…
Another Lockdown: Look at the Bright Side..!
Many of us are dismayed about another period of staying put in our homes! “Another lockdown?” we ask each other, sighing heavily. How often we spend our time looking at the dark side of things when we should be looking at the bright side! There’s a story of two men…
Doing Business, Bargaining and Bartering with God..!
Very often I pass church, temple or mosque and see crowds outside. Initially I used to think that their gods must be so pleased to have so many worshipping them, till I realized very few came to worship, most came to barter, “God, please give me a promotion, and I…
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.