A few months ago, I lent a friend some money and he hasn’t been able to pay me back. “You’re a fool Bob!” said many of my friends, “you knew it was a losing proposition, why did you venture where angels fear to tread?” I shrugged my shoulders and smiled; all…


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.