The opposition has conducted a mock Parliament, and I can imagine the ruling party laughing. A Parliament in a garden! How ridiculous! Then comes the awkward question. Why should elected representatives need a lawn to demonstrate what ought to happen inside a building constructed for precisely that purpose? Normally, mock…


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.