This morning the first piece of news was from a classmate telling me, “He’s gone Bob!” “Who?” I asked. “My brother!” she said, “I’m now on a plane, on the way to attend his funeral!” How terrible is the finality of death especially when it’s a member of your family…


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.