As I read about the collapse of yet another building in Mumbai, I find that this one had repairs going on, when the staircase crumbled, bringing down portions of the wings on both sides. A little ten-year old girl was killed. “How can a building fall, when it’s being repaired?”…


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.