Mumbai is a crowded city. We crowd into trains, buses, lifts, markets, offices, restaurants and occasionally into spaces where even oxygen has to stand sideways. Our housing societies are no different. Cars compete for parking, children compete for playing space, and neighbours compete to prove that the other neighbour’s flowerpot…


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.