Over two decades ago I lay on a hospital bed with a near fatal illness. It was an air-conditioned room and as soon as everybody left after putting me there, I scrambled onto my bed weakly, opened the windows and looked out. “Sir,” said a nurse who was passing 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.