As we enter Christmas week, the spotlight predictably falls on the Baby in the manger and on Mary, serene and glowing in every nativity scene ever enacted. Rightly so. But somewhere just outside the frame stands a man who rarely gets centre stage. Joseph. The man holding the lantern. The…


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.