Construction Angels or the Morgue..!
As I bid farewell to the masons, carpenters and electricians and the last of the construction workers after they had repaired my old house, in the process carrying away three lorry loads or more of debris, I walked wearily up to my terrace. “Who are you?” I shouted a bit…
Dying for the ‘Self-Imposed’ Sinner..!
‘High Court: Can’t endear teen as dad’s illness was ‘self-imposed’ … Times of India, 14th May. “Daddy!” I imagine the sixteen year-old weeping and whispering, “you may be an alcoholic like the high court says, but I want to donate my liver to save your life!” But the High Court…
Mary’s True Peace..!
‘Oh Mary! Mother of Jesus!’ I said as I stood in front of her, And suddenly in the painting, I felt the Mother stir. ‘What is it dear child?’ she looked at me and said, ‘What question is it that I see, rankling in your head?’ ‘Mary Mother of God,’…
Is It Well With Your Soul?
One of my saddest moments at any concert was hearing a quartet of four men, singing, “It is well with my soul” It wasn’t the song that made me sad, nor the way rendered, it was the fact that one among them had lost his young daughter and was still…
Higher Ground..!
We are such weak creatures. Just when we think we are morally strong and begin to think that we cannot fall, we slip. Where do I get the strength to stand tall all the time? I realize such strength did not come about very easily. Just when we think we…
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.