My father loved cowboy pictures and also enjoyed watching war movies, but the reason he relished them wasn’t so much the action but the humour. “Just watch their one liners in a tough situation Bob!” He used to tell me and we laughed together as soldiers in the thick of…


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.