Even as communication gets easier and easier and we now can speak, see each other and know how our near and dear ones are at hardly any cost, I wonder why the easiest mode of communication, which is prayer is hardly used. Prayer is powerful, and prayer is effective. We…
Give Voice to the Voiceless..!
Yesterday I was asked to speak at the Nirmala Niketan College in Mumbai about, “Giving a Voice to the Voiceless’. It seemed as I began to speak, I heard a whisper, “What If, you Bob should not be the speaker here today, but the speaker be we the so called…
There’s A Purpose in Delays..!
This happened a couple of years ago; a car coming down the opposite lane at breakneck speed climbed up the divider and before my astonished eyes turned a couple of times before coming to a standstill upside down! Though the driver got out unhurt, it was just providence that there…
Grateful for those Little Acts..!
Three years ago my schoolmates started a WhatsApp group and it suddenly struck me and a few of my classmates that there were so many who’d played an important role in our lives. I began to think, and realized that so often we take time to thank people who are…
Dare to Be A Billionaire..!
“Amazing!” I exclaimed at what I was reading on a website, “Two-thirds of the world’s 946 billionaires made their fortunes from scratch, relying on grit and determination, and not good genes.” I read on, “Bill Gates was a dropout, who finally got his honorary degree from Harvard University, 30 years…
Papa Don’t Preach..!
India watches shocked, as a powerful tyrant uses muscle, might, and maximum force to pulverize and bully a smaller country. Even as we are appalled, outraged and horrified, even as we look across the ocean at the UN and expect that supposedly mighty institution representing the world to put an…
A New Creature..!
Ever so often I come across someone grieving, and I try to comfort them with this small story: In a quiet pond lived a little colony of water creatures. They were a happy colony, living far away from the sun, busy, scurrying over the soft mud on the bottom of…
The ‘What-Next’ Leaders..!
Just one bullet! An assassination of an archduke, and the first world war began! Millions died on battlefields. It was a war which led to the next world war, where not just the battlefields, but gas chambers smelt of charred, burnt human flesh! Today, a stunned world looks at a…
Rewriting History..!
Each successive government rewrites history, the way an author revises his books. “Look at this,” says a minister in my imagination, thumbing through a book of history, “it says the English built the railways in India!” “Nonsense!” says another minister, “Change that to 2014!” And so history is rewritten! Which…
Just a Little Nudge..!
Just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary a few days ago, which brought back memories of days when I struggled to build my business, and quite often complained to my new bride about the tough day I’d had. I guess she also as a resident doctor was going through her difficult…
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.