The Uncanny Tale of Two Pipe Organs..!
Yesterday as I sat at the Tata Theatre and heard enchanting music from the pipe organ played by young Avinash Grubb, I thought of another pipe organ: It was one of the most beautiful and stately pipe organs I had ever seen. It’s musical pipes rose high and nearly went…
Know Your God..!
The problem with the new airport in Mumbai is that every time you visit, there’s been a change, and this time I drove up a ramp that was meant for VIP parking, to which I certainly didn’t belong to! “Sir, please go forward then reverse out!” said the attendant politely….
Pickpockets..!
Wrote this while in college, and remember my mother typing it out for me for my college mag. Fished it out, and while reading it, find that nothing’s changed: He was being chased by a mob. He jumped from platform three to platform four just as a train came in,…
Just A Spider Sir..!
I swear its eyes were furious as it looked at me. It had built it’s web from the sides of my bathroom window, across, to a decorative steel pole a foot or two away, and by accident, as I strove to put on a switch, my hand had gone through…
Stepping Out In Faith..!
My favourite scene and one I call to mind whenever my faith is low, is of the fleeing Israelites crossing the Red Sea, using a path God has made for them through the treacherous waves! But before the sea parted Moses stood in front of the Red Sea. Just behind…
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.