This morning I witnessed a uniquely Indian engineering philosophy. It is called, “If something else breaks while doing the job, that is somebody else’s problem.” The tree cutters arrived to remove a dried junglee neem tree behind my house. I watched them with interest, expecting chainsaws, careful measurements, helmets and…


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.