Luckily, at this very moment, I am thousands of miles away from Mumbai, watching videos of roads that have turned into rivers, cars bobbing about like reluctant boats and commuters wading through water with expressions that suggest they have finally accepted that fish have better transport facilities than humans. 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.