I watched as my wife trudged across the living room with a bucket of clothes to be washed. I watched again as my younger daughter also trudged across with a bucket of water to water the plants. “Hey,” I shouted, putting down my newspaper. “What’s happened to our maid?” “She…


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.