Something I see very often on most sitting room walls in most homes is the family photo: Generally taken when the whole family trouped to a local studio in their Sunday best, stood in classic formation as photographer adjusted his costly equipment, peered into his eyepiece, said the standard ‘cheese’…


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.