There are days when my fingers hover over the keyboard, the screen stares back blankly, and I tell myself, “Be still.” But I smile even as I say it, because I know “stillness” isn’t about sitting motionless like a marble statue in a yoga class that’s run out of music….


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.