Everyday I watch as a very thin mother carries her school going child to the bus stop. “Can’t she walk?” I asked, fearing there was a problem with the little one’s legs. “She’s very sleepy,” explained the mother. I had thought when the child passed to a higher class 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.