With nearly fifty vaccines nearly ready, I can imagine this scene soon: The phone rings, and you answer, Yes?” “Sir we are from the Russian vaccine company! We have free gifts to offer along with the dose!” “How nice!” you say, “And what are the free gifts?” “Five masks with…
Trump, and Losing Gracefully..!
As I watch Trump, disgusted with the way he is not accepting his defeat, I remember watching the Oscars two years ago, and had seen how the host announced the wrong winner of the Best Picture Award: Instead of announcing the prize for ‘Moonlight’ he announced, ‘La La Land’. Warren…
Prosperity Gospel and the Poor..!
How we love the preacher on TV who tells us that God intended each of us to be rich and prosperous and he will lead us to that God! He preaches what we want to hear; that religion which means the worshipping of God in a church, temple or masjid…
Hold Me Lord…!
A few years ago I saw a case of suicide. It was a sweet seventeen-year old girl. I reached the place after the police had already pulled down the body from the fan where she had hung herself. They laid her on the bed. She wore a pair of jeans…
Knowing the Shepherd..!
Nothing in life can compare With the thrill of knowing God And knowing He knows you. “Why d’you bring God so often into your column?” asked someone angrily to me one day. “Can’t help it,” I replied, “He is my Shepherd!!” In the movie The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,…
Explore! Dream! Discover..!
At the age of seventy-five my father was a computer wizard. In fact I remember so well dad teaching me the basics of the machine and its technology. He was a man who never slipped into a mode of ‘so much and no farther.’ He always wanted to experiment and…
Freeing Our Women..!
My neighbour who has a habit of poking his nose in my business, stood outside my house, as I dismantled the grill, unscrewed the heavy steel door, and opened the thick wooden shades, “What are you doing?” he asked. “Freeing the women in my house!” I explained patiently. “You mean…
The Long Spoon Vaccine..!
Despite instructions, warnings and pleading from the government to abstain from lighting firecrackers, this Festival of Lights, the pleas fell largely on deaf ears. Dense smoke and deafening blasts of crackers bursting, clearly revealed the unconcerned people we really are. The allegory of the long spoons is a parable that…
A Bloodied Country..!
“Yours is one helluva bloody country,” exclaimed my English friend as he walked out of the airport. “On the contrary,” I protested, “we are a very peace loving, non violent people.” “Then why all the bloodshed,” said the Englishman. “Bloodshed?” I protested again. “Yeah there’s blood all over your land….
Giving Advice..!
“The only thing one does with advice is to pass it on. It is hardly used by oneself….” Oscar Wilde How good we are at giving advice! We dish it out free and give it to all who pass by, “Come take it’s free!” we shout, put our arms around…
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.