Something I see so often in America and Europe as I travel through a city in the mornings is the owner of a business establishment opening his shop himself, cleaning the porch and dusting his furniture. There is a sense of pride as he carefully wipes the door handles, makes…
Polite Outside, Crass Inside ..!
“Your husband,” I told the pretty lady standing at the entrance of the park where I walk everyday, “is such a polite man!” “Why what does he do?” asked the lady. “He wishes everybody during his morning walk,” said the chairman of the committee which maintains the park. “He helps…
The Gift of Friendship..!
As my plane took off last week, from the city I’d done my school and college, I looked out and thought of the last few days, when not a moment went by when old friends were not around. There were lunches, dinners, speaking and singing! But when the last day…
Installing Love..!
A close friend of mine sent me this delightfully meaningful piece which I would like to share with you today. It’s a conversation between technical support and a customer who has called in: Tech Support: Yes, … how can I help you? Customer: I’ve decided to install Love. Can you…
Escaping the ED, IT and Police..!
There were quite a few who came to hear me speak last week; corporate heads, industrialists and businessmen, and rightly so, because my topic was “How to Avoid the ET, IT and Police!” It’s a subject that’s going to be of interest to thousands in our country as politicians galore…
Dance, Stillness and Joy..!
The peepul tree that grows over my home, is quite literally a source of inspiration for me. This morning as I sipped my coffee and looked up at its majestic branches, I wondered at how still the leaves were. Now a peepul leaf is quite different from other leaves as…
Yours Is True Love..!
Some time back I read about a glamorous wedding that took place in Goa, between a former Miss World and an Indian tennis star. One had just divorced his wife a few months back and the other had broken up with her boyfriend. How fast we get in and out…
Dreams Can Wait..!
DREAMS CAN WAIT by Robert Clements (Published in the Indian Express Newspaper, 16th Feb, 1996) Today on her birthday I remember this article fondly….. The tall beautiful twelve year old girl waved her “dandiya’ stick at me and smiled. I looked at her, my grown-up daughter and my mind went…
Unbridled Power, Quiet Peace..!
“When you come to New York dad,” my daughter had told me a few years ago, “We’ll drive down and see the Niagara Falls!” I remembered the Niagara Falls. For years before visiting it the first time, I had seen pictures and picture postcards of the waters cascading down the…
Learn and Get Ahead..!
A few years ago the Mumbai Police declined to procure Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for aerial surveillance saying they do not have the required expertise. You all remember Mumbai’s 26/11, don’t you? When policemen with Second World War rifles tried to fire on terrorists armed with the latest sophisticated, weaponry! We…
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.