Don’t give up! There are many of us, bruised, bloodied and battered, who want to quit the race, quit their business, or just raise their hands in surrender. Don’t! Just stick it out! Finish your race! This happened at the Mexico City Olympics Stadium. Over an hour earlier, Mamo Waldi…
Flash a Beam of Light..!
A friend of mine and I were doing our morning walk a few years ago, when he told me about this seventeen year old boy in Mulund who had been diagnosed with blood cancer. “I know someone else who had the same disease and came out of it,” I said….
God says, ‘Now Allow Me..!’
Quite often deep disappointments like the one many went through yesterday in Maharashtra are God’s way of saying, “Now Allow Me!” In the Old Testament, there are several instances where God expresses anger or disappointment when His people, the Israelites, fail to seek His help or guidance in battle and…
Adani-A Wake Up Call..!
Even as we jump around, screaming over the US court indictment of Adani, baying for blood, or shouting, ‘racial bias’, let’s press pause and look at what the real issue is all about, then ask ourselves how it affects us. The real issue is bribery! Nothing works in our nation…
The Cost of a Miracle..!
One Sunday the priest at church asked our congregation whether they had experienced God’s presence in their lives in the past week. One after the other, different members, young and old, got up and told the others, some with voices choked with emotion, how miracles had taken place through prayer….
The Pickpocket..!
This was a piece I wrote while in college, after being pickpocketed and losing the princely sum of ten rupees. I sold this article for fifteen later and remember making a profit out of a catastrophe: ‘Pickpocket!’ shouted the crowd at the other end of the station platform. I watched…
It Shall Be Well..!
What powerful words, aren’t they? ‘It shall be well!’ Words we utter when full of hope and certainty. But imagine saying the same in the midst of despair and grief? Because these words were uttered as a mother looked at the body of her dead son, then looking up at…
Realising Our Goodness..!
How often we see a mentally challenged child or one born with other disabilities and wonder how God could be so cruel, isn’t it? At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be…
Loud, Garish Music..!
A very stringent anti-conversion law that will ensure zero religious conversions in Maharashtra will be enacted once the Mahayuti comes to power… Times of India, 11th Nov Was driving down a silent road one night, when I heard the sound of loud music, and found another car drawing up close,…
Look Who’s Stupid..!
I enjoyed this imaginary conversation with a fellow who thought that all stupid people should wear a sign saying they are stupid. What I loved most however was how it ended: “Why don’t stupid people have signs? Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, “I’m Stupid”. That…
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.