The choir sang, the people clapped, the youth smiled and the elderly trembled with anticipation. “What’s the excitement about?” asked the stranger who’d come to this church for the first time. “You don’t know?” asked a member of the church sitting next to him. “No!” said the stranger, “Tell me…


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.