We all know the fable about the shepherd boy. He rushes into town shouting that wolves are attacking his sheep. The villagers drop their work, run to help, and find they have been fooled. He does it again. Same drama. Same deception. Then comes the day a real wolf attacks….


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.