Don’t Close Your Gates..!
“The ultimate tragedy,” said Martin Luther King, “is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Yes, the silence you maintain when wrong things happen, is as bad as carrying out those same acts of injustice against the innocent. God…
Fooled by the Coffee Smell..!
In the last decade or so, I’ve become very conscious of the coffee I drink. It was not so always, as most of my lifetime I drank the cup that cheers in whatever form or brand it was. But seeing both my sons-in-law particular about their coffee, I realised how…
No Prophet from Galilee…!
How famous Galilee is today! From Galilee came Jesus, who changed the world and changed our lives. But what did the scribes and Pharisees think of Galilee? In John 7: 52, they said with disdain about Jesus, ‘Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.’ That’s it. They…
Forgiveness With God’s Help…!
As a rule I don’t look at horoscopes, but found one literally jumping onto my face, saying that my star sign, which is Scorpio, doesn’t allow me to forgive easily. “Aha!” I said. Because something I find very hard to do on my own is to forgive. I try but…
Raise Your White Flag..!
There are two acts of surrender I’m going to portray below: By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. And on July 16, a new option became available to the Allies when the United States secretly detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the New…
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.