Ever watched someone fumbling with the TV remote during a tense cricket match? The batsman is facing the last ball, the whole family is on edge, and suddenly, Uncle Ramesh presses pause! “Arrey, bathroom break,” he mutters. And the whole room groans. The moment is frozen. Suspense hangs in the…


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.