How often we swear. Not just casually, but dramatically. On our mother’s grave. On our own life. And when all else fails, on the heads of our children. It is said with such confidence that even the ceiling fan pauses to listen. Yet somehow, miraculously, the promise still manages to…


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.