Do you think my hair is soft and shiny?” Zarine asked Kumar one moonlit evening. Kumar answered, “Yep.” “And are my eyes bright and beautiful?” she continued. “Yep,” he replied. After a few minutes Zarine forged ahead, “Kumar, do you think my skin is smooth and clear?” “Yep.” At this,…


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.