There is something very special about the littlest one in a family. Today my youngest grandchild Layla celebrates her first birthday, and I can’t help wondering what it means to be the littlest. Is it always an upward journey from here? Will the littlest always be taken lightly, or will…


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.