“India is getting five billion dollars,” said my neighbour excitedly. I nearly dropped my teacup. “From whom?” I asked. “And more importantly, when do we divide it?” “It is not for you,” he said gruffly. “The American company Applied Materials plans to invest five billion dollars in India over the…


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.