Suddenly my very humble index finger has started getting proud. All these years, it’s been an obedient little fellow — pointing out directions, poking elevator buttons, stirring sugar into tea, and occasionally wagging at my dog when he chewed my slippers. But this week, with the Bihar and Mumbai municipal…


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.