Ah, dear politicians of India, why the long faces? Why the furrowed brows and pursed lips whenever a stand-up comedian cracks a joke or a satirist wields his pen? After all, you are the epitome of cleanliness, aren’t you? Squeaky clean, polished to a shine, so pristine that dirt would…


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.