A favourite Sunday school chorus of my childhood was about the wise man building his house on the rock, and the foolish man on sand. Maybe because it was an action song and showed the effects of wind and rain, we loved it, but today as I thought of that…


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.