His name was Kumar and he was my best friend in school. A little fellow, compared to me, who was lean and lanky, he was short and squat. Kumar was a fighter, he could knock out any guy in class, and most kept away from his tough hands. But one…
Fig Tree or Mustard Seed..!
Many of us think that having faith is an option. We quite often envy those who have faith saying we wish we also could be like them. But if we were to go into the Gospel of Mark, where Jesus encounters a fig tree, we will find to our shock…
Cutting Vegetables..!
I wrote this as I sat at a home for the aged and someone I’d come to meet over there hadn’t turned up so I had a little time, and I pulled my iPad out and started to write. ‘As I look up I see the most serious activity going…
No, Never Alone..!
Many years ago God gave my wife and me a wonderful anniversary gift. Our younger daughter had been selected for the Miss University contest. She was only sixteen, the youngest among a group of eighteen, nineteen and twenty one year olds. There had been two thousand applicants, narrowed down to…
Interviewing a World Champion..!
My phone rang as I drove home one night many years ago. It was from a newspaper I wrote for, “Would you like to interview Evander Holyfield, the boxer?” “Ofcourse,” I said and images came to me of a badly bruised boxing heavy weight with a part of his ear…
Protecting the Strong..!
This morning I received a video from Orissa of a church group who were stopped from worshipping by a police group. I watched as the church service was stopped by the police and the priest dragged to the police station. He was let off later, because the only reason he…
When I’m Wrong..!
It is accurately said that it is easy to be an angel when nobody ruffles your feathers. But it seems that feather rufflers will always be around. We’re told that 19th Century German statesman Prince Otto von Bismarck once became so incensed at the criticism of a professor, that he…
Long Wait to the Moon..!
The Man in the Moon looked at his wife as she stopped gazing at Earth and stared at him, “What?” he asked, because women whether they were from Earth or Moon, or even from Venus, always had a question on their minds when they gave their men that look, and…
What Would You Like to Hear?
Yesterday I heard a friend of mine, appealing to others in a group to donate towards those who needed food, clothing and shelter in Manipur. Even as I heard his appeal, and saw his sincere efforts to help, I realized that many of our hearts had turned to stone when…
Tackling the Impossible..! .
And as we rejoice over Chandrayaan 3 and exult in the fruition of an impossible dream, we need to understand that all impossible projects need not be a landing on the moon! Around the beginning of the last century, polio was rampant, irreversibly paralyzing thousands of children. Immunization programs were…
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.