Experience Silence and Feel Alive..!
The other day when I went onto the treadmill, I was asked why I didn’t play music while exercising and realized quite often I prefer silence! The world today hates silence: In fact, I’m beginning to think, people are scared of silence. There was a time I traveled by the…
Happy Birthday Dear People..!
“So Bob, Happy Birthday!” “It’s your birthday Lord not mine. Tis Christmas!” “It’s yours Bob! I came that you could be born again into a life, where I would be the centre, and so it’s your birthday, we celebrate today!” “But Lord, look at those angels singing, those shepherds round…
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,…
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.