Throw Your Tenant Out…!
“Who lives in that room?” I asked my friend. “Nobody,” he said. “Then why do you keep talking to him?” My friend looked puzzled. But throughout lunch, he had spoken of a man who had hurt him years ago. He remembered the words, the place where they had been spoken…
Your Name in Gold..!
She stood at the traffic light holding a bunch of roses. They looked tired, and so did she. A large car stopped beside her. Inside sat a famous film star wearing dark glasses large enough to hide both her eyes and her expression. The little child, flower seller hurried towards…
Stop Carrying the Load Yourself..!
“I cannot carry this anymore, Bob,” said a reader who phoned me. Her voice sounded tired. Not the tiredness that disappears after eight hours of sleep, but the tiredness that enters the heart and quietly unpacks its suitcase. “What are you carrying?” I asked. She told me. It was quite…
Just Speak the Word…!
I watched politicians and activists gathering around the tiny Christian community in India, offering sympathy, support and some splendid speeches. “We are with you,” they declared. I smiled, because politicians who say they are with you usually mean they hope you will soon be with them, preferably inside a polling…
The God They Cannot Contain..!
Why should anybody be frightened of Christians? We are barely 2.3 percent of India’s population. We do not have the numbers to dominate elections. We do not have armies marching behind us. Most of our institutions are schools, hospitals, homes for the aged and centres caring for those whom society…
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.