Part of a speech I once made has stayed with me for years. I had said that I believe in stories. Not because I am a writer and can hardly escape them, but because stories do something extraordinary. They put flesh and blood on people we have reduced to routine….


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.