“I know I kept it safely,” I announced, with the confidence of a man who had just made a terrible mistake. My wife looked up. After years of marriage, she knows that when I say something had been kept safely, we should cancel our appointments for the afternoon. There are…


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.