“You pay your driver how much?” asked my neighbour, looking as though I had just announced I was financing his daughter’s wedding. “A little more than the usual.” “Why?” “Because I am fond of my gearbox!” The other day, at a friend’s house, I heard a sound that suggested somebody…


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.