Halfway through a dip in the sea, I once swallowed a mouthful of seawater and announced that the sea was against me. A friend swimming beside me said, “The sea has never heard of you, Bob. Keep swimming.” He had a point. I had become so busy quarrelling with each…


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.