There is always one emotional scene playing out at every airport and railway station. A young man rushes towards his grandmother, drops his luggage, throws his arms around her and hugs her as though the last ten years have disappeared in one glorious squeeze. Nearby, a mother clings to her…


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.