“Come on we need some fun, let’s have a debate between the prime minister and Rahul Gandhi!” I suggested. My neighbour looked alarmed. “Live?” he asked. “Naturally.” “With questions?” “Obviously.” He gripped my arm. “Don’t, please. There are limits to what you can suddenly ask a democracy to do.” I…


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.