Let Your Voices Ring..!
One Sunday morning in church, I felt like a racehorse with an iron yoke on my shoulders. I wanted to shout to the Lord, to sing out, to cry out the words in the hymn that we were trudging through like defeated soldiers returning from a lost war, but thought…
God Speaks Out Loud and Clear..!
“God doesn’t speak anymore!” whispered the frail old lady to her daughter, who sat by her bedside one Christmas eve, “Not the way he spoke to Abraham and Isaac, not anymore, not the way He spoke to Moses and the others, God doesn’t speak anymore, though I pray to Him…
When Death Strikes..!
One of the saddest sights I’ve seen is when a loved one is carried out of his or her home, dead, cold and lifeless. Tears flow and sobs rack the air as the body is placed in coffin or funeral bier and taken to crematorium or cemetery. Death is inevitable…
Passiontide and Justice..!
Was surprised to see that my Sunday political column had been displaced in the Nagpur newspaper, since they were celebrating their Golden Jubilee, but the title of the new piece said, “I See No Intolerance!” I was shocked! Hear more about my experience in my talk to the members of…
Many Red Sea Partings..!
’Twas while walking in heaven a few years from today, I chanced to see two Israelites, trudging a little slowly, like they’d been forty years in the wilderness, so I asked the angel playing her harp at the side of the heavenly road if them two were Jews, who’d crossed…
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.