Every parent knows there comes a moment when raising your voice no longer works. The child grows taller, develops opinions, discovers Google, and suddenly your famous line, “Because I said so,” loses all its magical powers. Unfortunately, some governments never graduate from parenthood. Watching the young protesters gathering at Jantar…


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.