Somewhere in Mumbai, a man collapses on a crowded railway platform. Thousands hurry past because the 8.43 fast local is more important than a human being. In Bengaluru, a delivery rider lies bleeding after an accident while motorists carefully steer around him as though he were just another pothole. Somebody…


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.