“Any news?” asked the businessman, looking anxiously out of his office window. “Stock market, sir?” “Clouds!” And there you have Mumbai, the financial capital of India, where men can predict international markets, manipulate balance sheets and arrange billion rupee mergers, but must finally look upwards and ask, “Will it rain?”…


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.