’Tis not often Liberty Island ferrymen around New York show agitation. Yes, some hundred odd years ago they were a tad perplexed to see the Statue of Liberty hoisted up and made to stand all by herself on what was once an old fort island, but after that, through storms…


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.