The Heat, It’s Killing Me..!
Hot, isn’t it? “The heat it’s killing me!” you grumble from your airconditioned room, and then the doorbell rings. You open the door, and see your garbage collector or maid or driver or maybe the watchman, “What?” you ask angrily as the blast of hot air hits you. You look…
He’s Waiting..!
On a visit to New York, while doing my morning quick walk along the East River in Manhattan one morning, watching fancy boats cruising down, the water gently flirting with the riverbank, and on the other side, fast cars swishing down roads at breakneck speed, when I saw ahead of…
First be Faithful with Small Responsibilities..!
Ten years ago I sat on the board of a religious magazine, where a priest was the treasurer. I found he had signed eighty-seven blank checks and left them in the trust office. Doing that he felt he did not need to travel all the way to the trust office…
Here Am I, Send Me..!
My grandfather, nearly a hundred years ago, a Professor of English Literature in an established college, was tipped off to become the first Indian principal of that college, when he answered God’s call to become a missionary, with these words on his lips, “Here I am Lord, send me!” And…
The Beginning of Wisdom..!
As a schoolboy, I loved our morning school assembly because there was always a hymn to be sung and I loved singing, but as I sat and looked up, the words printed in elegant old fashioned script just above the stage, held my attention, “The Fear of the Lord,” it…
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.