Two ‘touching’ scenes come to my mind: One is a national leader going round the world intent on touching everyone he meets internationally by hugging them, and another, again a national leader but in the opposition going round the country, first in a walk across the nation and otherwise just…
Arresting Journalists..!
Many, many decades ago, while riding my motorbike as a teenager, I crashed into a car and was badly injured. At least the blood all over made others feel I was terribly hurt and the ones in the car, who were actually mechanics and were testing the brakes of the…
Don’t Shoot the Messenger..!
In the good old days when kings sat in their castles and sent their men into battle, quite often, guards from his fort watchtowers would shout, “Lone horseman riding to the fort!” And soon, they would identify him through his banner as one of their own, coming from the battlefield…
Man In The Arena..!
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…
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.