In the evenings I love sitting under my peepul tree and watching the darkness through the leaves. There is something soothing about that slow merging of light and night, as if the day is saying a polite goodbye. In the last few days, that same darkness is being threatened by…


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.