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,…
From Cowards to Courageous Men..!
Like lots of us, for many, many years I was skeptical about my own religion, and followed it because I was born into it. One day about three decades back, while reading about events that happened around the crucifixion of Christ, I found that most of the followers of Jesus…
Today’s a Fatal Saturday..!
Quietly, silently, stealthily the virus waits, outside our gates, waiting for one false move, of one pair of hands not washed with soap and water, waiting for one allowance of infected person entering, but till then it waits outside, pretending sleep, waiting for that chance, that opportunity, when it can…
The Cross and a Coronavirus Celebration..!
Jesus! There He is, stretched out on the cross! Wicked nails protruding from ripped hands and feet. Rough splinters from the wood of the cross rubbing against a back with no skin on it; removed by severe lashes Roman soldiers so freely had given him. His head dripping from the…
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.