There’s a new method of bribery which has come into being in our nation; the legal, official bribe! We’ve just seen this in the Maharashtra elections where women were promised one thousand five hundred rupees per month by a party. The party won, the people are jubilant, thinking they have…


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.