“Bob, I also wanted to be a writer!” is something I hear at practically every party or gathering I go to. “Oh!” I exclaim politely, “Then what happened?” “People dissuaded me from being one!” they say dolefully. “And you compromised?” I ask. “Yes!” they whisper. Ah well it’s a story…


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.