I was sitting in a café in New York today, watching the world walk past my table. This was unlike other eateries—people came here alone, not with their families. Next to me was a white American who had initially jumped two steps when my wife nearly took his Coke from…


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.