This happened many years ago. The old lady sat in the room sobbing. The old man, her husband, a retired army major, stared straight ahead. They had just lost their son in a motor- bike accident. I sat holding her hand, there was nothing I could say; the grief was…


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.