“I wish you hadn’t gone out last evening,” said my wife. I looked at her with the innocent expression husbands have perfected over centuries. “Yesterday evening?” I asked, buying three valuable seconds. “Yes,” she said. “Yesterday evening. Where were you?” “I was thinking about a new book,” I replied. “Where?”…


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.