I visited the Mahakali Caves, in Andheri East, Mumbai. They are over two thousand years old. I imagined instead of car and auto, I could hear the steady ring of stone hammer on copper chisel, digging into basalt? Tap. Tap. Tap. Steadfastly, surely, skillfully, precise blow on blow, hammers, chips,…


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.