What powerful words, aren’t they? ‘It shall be well!’ Words we utter when full of hope and certainty. But imagine saying the same in the midst of despair and grief? Because these words were uttered as a mother looked at the body of her dead son, then looking up at…


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.