Don’t Use Your Muscle..!
It was after a Christmas concert, while walking out of the Cathedral, I felt a touch on my arm, and a lady asking, “When will you put up a play again?” I looked at her, “You remember?” I asked, “It’s nearly thirty years since I directed a play, I’d written!”…
Temple Talk..!
No, it’s not the Ayodhya temple I’m writing about today, though there’s a faint possibility that all the temple talk going on around could have influenced my thoughts. The temple I’m writing about is the one in Jerusalem, built to the almighty God, but a God, who was specific about…
Outside the Church’s Closed Door..!
The little boy was weeping outside the closed doors of the church. His tears flowed like tsunami waves down his cheeks. A stranger passing by, stopped and enquired, “Why are you crying little boy, that too outside a church?” The little boy looked up to the stranger and said, “The…
Keepers of the Fold..!
The wise old angel looked at the little angel, and offered his divine wings to wipe the tears in her eyes, “Why are you crying little angel?” he asked kindly. It was unusual to see weeping in the heavenly realm and he was a little uncertain how to deal with…
The Greatest Story Ever Told..!
‘And where did the greatest story ever told take place?’ I asked the audience of businessmen and their wives who’d come to celebrate with a Christmas dinner? ‘Not in a manger,’ I told them, ‘but in the realms of heaven where a worried and frustrated God looked down at a…
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.