Convert Your Work Into Service..!
Here’s a story: One evening a man was addressing a workshop on the concept of work culture. One of the participants asked, “I am a senior manager of a materials department and joined an organization twenty five years ago as an engineer trainee and over the last 25 years I…
Sweetened Tongues..!
“Oh Bob!” she said as she held my arm, “where’ve you been?” “Bbbut, bbbut,” I stammered, “I just missed coming here once!” “I missed you,” she said and just as I was getting ready to fall into her arms I saw her eyes flit to someone else in the room…
Choosing a Father..!
Many actresses all over the world are adopting children and rearing them without a father. But at some stage they realize the child needs a dad in their lives, and off they troop in search of a dad. Here I am going to place an imaginary scene where an actress…
Broaden Your Cave..!
As I explored the ancient regions of Cappadocia and walked gingerly into the seven cave churches, I found some delightful insights. I found that it was not St George alone who fought the dragon but he was ably assisted by another warrior and horseman, St Theodore! Now there be very…
The Train of Life..!
It was a 1947 steam engine. I looked at the pictures of it. It was going to do a heritage run and the whole city was excited last Sunday. Every station that the train passed was crowded with young and old. The old telling the young that the iron monster…


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.