Just over two years ago, seventy-three voices, including mine, and an orchestra of thirty-one raised their voices, violins, violas, cellos, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, French horns, trumpets, trombones, and a timpani, making glorious music! There must have been a smile on Mozart’s face somewhere in the heavens as he heard singers…
The Old Wonderful World..!
Anyone who’s seen the classic Cecil B. DeMille’s movie, ‘Ten Commandments’ will relate to what I’m going to portray; the torture, the whipping, the cruelty, the bullying that the Israelites were undergoing under the hands of the Egyptians, till a prince named Moses, rescued them, with God’s help, and took…
This Too Shall Pass..!
A story goes that a neighboring king once came to Solomon and asked him for a motto, “It must be one”, said he, “that shall be as much use to me in times of trouble as in times of prosperity”. The wise Solomon it is said, gave the king these…
Aiyo..!
She was beautiful, doe eyed and South Indian, and every time, we met after college, and I recounted something I’d been through during the day, she would exclaim, “Aiyo!” Aiyo, covered all her emotions, from ‘Oh dear!” to ‘’Oh no!” in sadness and even in joy, could ‘aiyo’ be used….
Family Photos n’ Lockdown Fights..!
Something I see very often on most sitting room walls in most homes is the family photo: Generally taken when the whole family trouped to a local studio in their Sunday best, stood in classic formation as photographer adjusted his costly equipment, peered into his eyepiece, said the standard ‘cheese’…
A Sheet of Snow White Paper..!
One section of a bookshop that always beckons me seductively, is where they display stationary. It isn’t books by famous authors that has me enthralled, or shelves that contain classics by writers of yore, nor crime or fiction, but empty pads of white paper that come in all shapes and…
Don’t Look at the Waves..!
Nearly three decades ago, I fell sick with a near fatal illness. Terrified, one night I called a doctor friend, and told him, how serious I was and also read my levels out to him. I will never forget what he told me, “Bob,” he said, “They are only numbers….
Do Viruses or Bombs Frighten You?
Is there a sense of dread, fear or huge unease you feel right now? Listen to the couple who laughed while bombs fell around them… Click Here ***************************************** Would love to hear from you in the COMMENTS section below…and IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE BOB’S BANTER EVERYDAY, PLEASE SEND YOUR…
Listening to Hear God’s Voice..!
A famous actor talks about the night he overheard his little daughter praying. He was surprised to hear her saying, “Dear God, now what can I do for you?” The actor was surprised, “How do you expect God to tell you what he wants?” asked the actor afterwards. “By listening…
Tackling the Chinese in Our Backyard..!
Today, the mood in India is to march to the border and slaughter those who killed our twenty brave men. And in the midst of this bristling rage, has come a call to ban all things Chinese! For most of us this means checking if a product is made 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.