These thoughts occurred while waiting for someone at a home for the aged a little before the lockdown: ‘As I look up from where I’m sitting, I see the most serious activity going on; a number of old ladies from the same home are involved in cutting vegetables. I think…


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.