“I’m just leaving, Bob,” said my friend over the phone. “I’ll be there in ten minutes.” In the background I heard his wife say, “At least put your trousers on before you tell him that.” He lives forty minutes away. In Mumbai, we blame the traffic for a great many…


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.