Players win, players lose, players prepare, players practise, players get hurt but players get up. No matter what the outcome is, players keep playin..!. After years of hard work, Thomas Carlyl finished the manuscript of his book and gave it to a friend to read. The friend’s housekeeper mistook the…
A Note From My Dad..!
While looking through my bookshelf this morning, I found a book, my dad had gifted me, before he passed away; the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. In the inside cover my dad had also written a note for me, “Dear Bob,” he’d written, “Courage comes in many forms, but to turn…
Two Fried Eggs and Not Satisfied..!
Was enjoying my coffee on my terrace garden this morning, watching friendly squirrels and birds pecking at pieces of bread I’d thrown for them, then slowly began to feel restless, even as I was enjoying the most peaceful moments of my day. I pondered on this and realized that this…
Shoes for the King..!
Maybe it’s the beard! “It’s certainly not any halo you have around you!” chuckles the wife, when I tell her that very often unknown people confide in me secrets that make me wonder what makes them do so: Like my wife says she’s certain it’s not any halo, so I…
Dare Go Out and Bat..!
When my book DARE was getting ready to be launched, I didn’t miss an opportunity to go to book stores and see what the competition was like. “How are the sales of your motivational books?” I would ask a book seller. “Sometimes beats fiction sales!” he would say happily, making…
Grandpa, Grandma and Suicide..!
Grandpa and Grandma always got very excited when they recalled the old days they were together. They made a decision, one day to make it “yesterday once more”. They made a date on the riverbank they used to go when they were young. The next day, Grandpa got up six…
Just Married..!
Attended a wedding the other day and as I looked at the young newlyweds, I whispered to my wife that the couple looked a tad too young to marry. The wife reminded me of our days and I suddenly realized we all have our ‘just married stories,’ don’t we? So,…
I Crossed Only Once..!
One day while sitting on the platform bench at a station, I saw the railways had put up a signboard picturing two ghosts talking to each other, with one saying in bold letters, “I CROSSED ONLY ONCE!” Once was enough wasn’t it, for human life to take ghostly form? Yet…
Police Custodial Deaths and a Mother..!
“Youth dies in police custody! Over, 100 killed in police custody in Maharashtra in four years “ Times of India, Oct 30th “Just give me my son! Place him across my lap. Open your eyes child, did you close them, so you wouldn’t see the next blow and the next?…
Stretching Out to Touch..!
This morning while walking at the park I accidentally brushed past a man. “Sorry!” I said. “Thank you!” he replied. I walked on a little puzzled, wondering whether I’d heard right, and then slowed down waiting for him to pass, “Why did you say thank you?” I asked. “Because you’re…
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.