Few things make a traveller more anxious than a half open suitcase. You stand there staring at it as if it might answer back. Have I packed too little or have I packed too much? Do I really need three shirts for two days or will two shirts bravely manage…


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.